Rajasthan government finally looking for suitable locations for the four proposed higher education institutes in Rajasthan, a high-power committee will visit all the six divisional headquarters in the state and a few districts. The committee will suggests possible sites:1. IIT
2. IIM
3. Central university
4. World-class university in Rajasthan.
The committee headed by Vijay Shankar Vyas, former chairman of the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, will start its tour from Alwar on Tuesday from where it will proceed to other places in the state. The committee set-up by the state government includes L K Maheshwari, vice-chancellor, BITS, Pilani, Vishwananth Sinha, professor and advisor, LNMIT, and Parvindra Singh, principal secretary (higher) and technical education of Rajasthan.
The state government had set up the committee, even after experts had recommended that Jaipur or a location on the Jaipur-New Delhi highway would have been ideal for IIT, because of better connectivity. This however, was ignored by the Vasundhara Raje government, that cited unavailability of land in the state capital as a reason. Instead, it suggested Kota as an ideal location. Present chief minister Ashok Gehlot is now trying to take it to his home turf in Jodhpur. Contrary to views of politicians, experts still insist that Jaipur is the best location. This will also help in inviting visiting faculty, including teachers from outside India. The four cities in race of IIT are Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur. Ashok gehlot will use his full power to take it to his home at Jodhpur, but approapriate place is Jaipur.
2. IIM
3. Central university
4. World-class university in Rajasthan.
The committee headed by Vijay Shankar Vyas, former chairman of the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, will start its tour from Alwar on Tuesday from where it will proceed to other places in the state. The committee set-up by the state government includes L K Maheshwari, vice-chancellor, BITS, Pilani, Vishwananth Sinha, professor and advisor, LNMIT, and Parvindra Singh, principal secretary (higher) and technical education of Rajasthan.
The state government had set up the committee, even after experts had recommended that Jaipur or a location on the Jaipur-New Delhi highway would have been ideal for IIT, because of better connectivity. This however, was ignored by the Vasundhara Raje government, that cited unavailability of land in the state capital as a reason. Instead, it suggested Kota as an ideal location. Present chief minister Ashok Gehlot is now trying to take it to his home turf in Jodhpur. Contrary to views of politicians, experts still insist that Jaipur is the best location. This will also help in inviting visiting faculty, including teachers from outside India. The four cities in race of IIT are Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur. Ashok gehlot will use his full power to take it to his home at Jodhpur, but approapriate place is Jaipur.
This is very unfortunate ad indicates how politicians play with public money and resources in their self-inetrest instead of the long-term iterest of the institution and the society. If IIT Rajasthan is not situated in Jaipur it will greatly suffer from paucity of world-class faculty. Any educational istitution is as good or bad as its faculty are. And it is obvious that Jaipur s the best place to attract talent and foreign collaborations. So, one can imagine what will happen to IIT Rajasthan if it is established in Jodhpur. In fact, it would be more worse than IIT Guwahati, which does not have faculty of high standard and thus their students are not better than the ones from an average NIT.
ReplyDeleteI suggest that the Public Interest Litigation should be filed in the court against the people and politicians who are misusing their power of seat and powers to gain selfish ends. This case should be dragged to the court to see that no politics should be done and the decision should be taken in the true benefit of the professional intuition and students.
ReplyDeleteThanks God At least it is not going to Kota where the coaching class barons would have tried their best to have an IIT. Jaipur was the best for IIT. No wonder if IIT can be established in Guwahati , then Jodhpur is a no surprise.
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