ITBHUGlobal.org: The Chronicle: IT-BHU to IIT conversion update

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At present, our institute is at the critical moment. We shall have to watch development for next few months. Our entire IT-BHU community, including students, faculty and alumni are working together towards the goal of making our institute an IIT.

The national election results are announced is under progress and Congress lead UPA government has come to the power at the central. (A full election results report is published in the Reports page of this issue).  Mr. Kapil Sibal has been appointed as new Human Resources Development Minister, Mr. D. Purandeswari has been appointed as Minister of State for HRD.

The parliament budget session will be convened during first week of July. Hopefully, IIT Act shall be amended during that session. To become an IIT for our institute, the question is now or never. Hence it is essential that our institute’s name is included in the IIT Act amendment by parliament in the July 2009 session.

We hope that the new HRD ministry and BHU administration will resolve the issue in a manner acceptable to all parties.

In order to continue to press for our demand for IIT status for our institute, an online petition was created. We received 2,272 signatures in one month of posting. The site has been locked out since June 03 and the soft copies as well as printout are being sent to VC and 8 members of Executive Council.

http://www.petitiononline.com/iitbhu/petition.html

The petition requests for calling a meeting of BHU Executive Council by VC and passing the necessary resolution in favour of IIT status for our college. The meeting of EC is necessary as the earlier resolution passed by Council on 21^st February does not address the complete requirement needed for our institute for conversion to IIT.

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