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HRD Ministry allays fears over IIESTs
Monday December 10 2007 13:06 IST
Express News Service
KOCHI: In a fresh development having bearing on Cusat’s conversion into an IIEST, the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development has conveyed to a team from Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur, that the spirit of the Anandakrishnan Committee report will not be diluted when it is converted into an IIEST.
The BESU team led by its Vice-Chancellor met the Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh the other day to air its apprehensions over the university’s conversion into an IIEST.
The team was assured that a separate schedule for the list of IIESTs and IIEST Council will be incorporated in the NIT Act and the Act will be renamed IIEST-NIT Act.
This will ensure separate identity for IIESTs, said sources. In due course a separate IIEST Act will be enacted, the team was told.
A Bill for the conversion of five institutions into IIESTs was to be moved in the winter session of Parliament.
However, this didn’t happen and now the HRD Ministry is thinking on the lines of issuing an order for the conversion of BESU and Cusat into IIESTs so as to start admission on the new pattern from the 2008 academic year, said the sources.
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