by rakesh | Mar 7, 2007 | India News
In the year 2003, Government of India decided to take over 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) and upgrade them as National Institutes of Technology (NITs). Thereafter, on the request from the respective State Governments, three more Engineering Colleges namely Bihar College of Engineering – Patna, Government Engineering College – Raipur and Tripura Engineering College – Agartala were upgraded as National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Presently 20 NITs, one each in following States are functioning in the country: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
In principle approval has been accorded to convert Manipur Institute of Technology, Imphal to NIT. There is no other proposal under consideration of the Government.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
by rakesh | Mar 1, 2007 | India News
The Minister for Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni has said that the Government is proposing to make amendments to the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972 to make the provisions more stringent with a view to curb illegal trafficking in antiquities.
The proposed amendments provide for periodical verification of the registered antiquities, higher punishments for commission of certain offences punishable under the Act, restrictions on transfer of antiquities to foreign nationals, restrictions in making unauthorized replicas of antiquities, making certain offences under the Act non-cognizable and non-bailable etc. In a written reply she said, whenever reliable information is received about the presence of smuggled Indian antiquities in any other country, steps for its retrieval are being taken up in accordance with the establishment procedures. Details of such cases under process presently are as under:
CASES UNDER PROCESS FOR RETRIEVAL OF INDIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM ABROAD.
(i) Five sculptures from British Museum, London.
(ii) Astronomical Tools (5) from Egypt.
(iii) One sculpture of Thirthankar from Washington.
(iv) One sculpture of nataraj from London (U.K.).
(v) One sculpture of Varah from Switzerland.
by rakesh | Mar 1, 2007 | India News
The Minister of Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni has said that to ensure the safety & security of monuments & foreign tourists, the Ministry of Tourism has advised the State Governments to deploy Tourist Police at important tourist destinations. She said, the States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi etc., have deployed Tourist Police force in one form or another. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Smt. Soni said, law & order is a subject which falls under the purview of the State/Union Territory concerned. However, in order to ensure the safety & security of tourist the Ministry of Tourism has been making endeavour to persuade the State Governments/Union Territories to deploy tourist police and make appropriate security arrangements at important destinations in the country
by rakesh | Feb 23, 2007 | Kota News
[img align=left]http://citynews.co.in/uploads/img45dec6f99a75b.jpg[/img] 1. Brahmacharya (Education, student life) (age 0-25 Years)
2. Grihastha (Married or householder life)(age 26-50 Years)
3. Vanprastha (forest-dweller, educating new generation)(age 51-75 Years)
4. Sanyas (purely dedicated towards worship of god, retiree)(age 76-100 Years)
These children are performing the drama of the Grihastha part during their School’s Annual Function. They are showing marriage part, the beginning of the Grihastha.
by rakesh | Feb 22, 2007 | India News
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to the following proposals :
(i) setting up of “Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management” at Shillong (Meghalaya);
(ii)Incurring non-recurring expenditure of Rs. 120.67 crores over a period of five years and Rs. 45.08 crores for recurring expenditure over a period of six years for the new IIM at Shillong;
(iii)Accepting land, free of cost, from Government of Meghalaya
(iv) Creation of one post of Director in the scale of pay of Rs. 25,000/- (fixed) and one post of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) in the scale of Rs. 12,000-375-16500/- along with necessary support staff.
The professional managers trained by this new Indian Institute of Management would promote economic and industrial development of the North Eastern Region(NER) as well as of the country. The Institute would help generate globally benchmarked process of education and training in management education with the state of the art management knowledge. The Institute will be run and managed by a Society to be registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860.
The Government of Meghalaya will provide at least 120 acres of land free of cost for IIM at Shillong.
The project envisages an annual student intake capacity of 60 in the first year which would go up to 120 in 3rd year and 180 in the 6th year. Since this would be a national level institute, there would not be any reservation exclusively for students of the Region in the Post Graduate Programme for which admission shall be through Common Admission Test (CAT). However, the Institute would conduct short-term courses on subjects of local relevance like tourism, horticulture, hydel power etc.
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