(News dated 24th June in Hindustan Times)
BHU wants IIT status for IT
HT Correspondent
Varanasi, June 24
AFTER GETTING nod for AIIMS status for IMS, the Banaras Hindu University is now eyeing IIT status for the Institute of Technology (IT-BHU).
Besides, IT-BHU, six other institutes, Engineering College of Osmania University, Bengal Engineering College, Engineering and Technology Department of Jadhavpur University, Zakir Hussein Engineering and Technology College of Aligarth Muslim University, College of Engineering at Andhra University and Kochin University of Science and Technology are in the fray to get the IIT status.
A three-member high-powered committee of Union Human Resource Development Ministry consisting of Director of Madras Institute of Developmental Studies, Prof Anand Krishnan, former Vice-Chancellor of Roorkee University, Prof. DB Singh and former Director of IIT-Kharagpur, Prof. Amitabh Ghosh had visited IT-BHU to take stock of infrastructural facilities and academic standards in the November last year.
Later, the committee had submitted its report to MHRD and Rs 265 crore grant was sanctioned to IT-BHU to upgrade its infrastructural facilities. A meeting of all the seven engineering institutes has been convened in New Delhi for July 14 to discuss the prospect of these institutes to get the IIT status.
“Definitely, the CCEA decision to accord IMS-BHU as AIIMS status has boosted our morale and our efforts to ensure IIT status for IT-BHU would be intensified,” said Director of IT-BHU, Prof SN Upadhyay.
(The above news was forwarded by Mohit Saini, Chemical 2002)