Madhya Pradesh may get a central university while Bihar, Raj. and A.P. may get IIT

It is proposed that in eleventh Five Year Plan, that each of the 16 States which do not have a Central University so far, namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand to have one during the eleventh Plan period. This information was shared by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, D. Purandeswari in a written reply to a question by Uday Pratap Singh in Rajya Sabha as per Press information bureau press release today.

Meanwhile Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh on the occasion of the 60th Independence Day had announced the setting up of eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country during the Eleventh Five Year Plan. As per Press Information press note Central Government have received requests from various State Governments including Governments of Uttar Pradesh & Orissa to set up new IITs in their States. Based on the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, under the Chairmanship of Prof. C.N.R. Rao, the Government has already decided to establish three new IITs, one each in Bihar in the East, Rajasthan in the West and Andhra Pradesh in the South, during the 11th Plan period. Decision on the location of the remaining Institutes has not yet been taken.

No to upgrade Gwalior’s Institute to IIT

But on another question on issue to upgrade Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABVIIITMG) as an IIT raised by Maya Singh in Rajya Sabha. Minister of State for Human Resource Development, D. Purandeswari in a written reply to this question said that ‘Madhya Pradesh is already having various centrally funded technical educational institutions viz. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal; Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (ABV-IITM), Gwalior; Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (PDPM-IITDM), Jabalpur and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Indore. Further, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) has been approved to be established in Bhopal. Planning Commission has given its ‘in-principle’ approval for setting up a School of Planning and Architecture in Bhopal. At present there is no proposal to upgrade Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (ABVIIITMG) as an IIT’.