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Private institutes: Need of Indian education system

More than 10 million students in India are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. Private institutions compensate for the failure of the education system. It is high time that it is given the status of an industry.. FOUR YEARS ago, I appeared for the engineering competitive examinations but couldn’t score a rank good enough to get admission in a government institution. My dreams of being an engineer were on the verge of being shattered but a private institution came to my rescue. It was not just my case but according to the latest survey conducted by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), there are 17,500 colleges and 230 universities providing higher education to 11million students. But the biggest irony is that out of this large number more than 10 million students are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. The figure itself clearly proves, who is playing a bigger role in imparting higher edu...
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Shillong, June 27: The Centre has agreed to set up a National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Shillong provided land is allotted by the government fo

Shillong, June 27: The Centre has agreed to set up a National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Shillong provided land is allotted by the government for the purpose. Meghalaya chief secretary Ranjan Chatterjee, who is camping in Delhi, today said over phone that the Union education secretary had agreed to set up an NIT in Shillong. The Meghalaya capital already has a medical college and an Indian Institute of Management.“The Centre only wanted Meghalaya to provide sufficient land to construct the building and other infrastructure facilities,” Chatterjee said. However, for the time being, Meghalaya and the other states that do not have NITs will be allotted more seats in the ones that do. A meeting was held in Delhi between the ministry of human resource development and the secretaries and commissioners of different states and Union Territories yesterday to discuss the seat allotment at NITs in the country. A state education department official said according to the policy of reservatio...
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Final decision by Centre after July 13

NEW DELHI, June 25 – Despite protests by States against the new policy of admission in National Institute of Technology (NIT), the Human Resources Development Ministry is likely to wait till July 13 to assess the situation before taking a final decision. There may be a few States, which have apprehensions over not getting seats in various technical institutions at the same level, as they were getting earlier. “The exact position depends on exercise of choices by the candidates and hence, would be clear only by end of first round of counselling by the Central Counselling Board (CCB) on the July 13,” official sources said.Under the circumstances, the June 26 meeting of the Technical Education Secretaries convened by the HRD Ministry may be just a formality. “All efforts will be made to give satisfaction to all States,” Ministry however assured.Conveying the anxiety of loosing out on number of seats, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi in a letter to Union HRD Minister, Arjun Singh said that the ...
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Tripura loses quota in NITs outside state

Agartala, June 25: The Manik Sarkar government is seething over the HRD ministry’s decision to do away with quota for Tripura students outside the state in various engineering colleges, including NITs. Therefore, the entire quota of 160 seats for Tripura students is set to go. But as a consolation prize, the quota for students of the home state in NIT Agartala will still be 50 per cent of the total number of seats, that is, 456. Earlier, the total number of seats was 420 among which 210 were reserved for students from Tripura. “The matter will be discussed threadbare at a high-level meeting in Delhi tomorrow and the commissioner of the higher education department will attend the meeting and communicate our stand,” the chief minister told the state Assembly today. Sarkar said 50 per cent quota for Tripura students in the newly launched NIT Agartala cannot resolve the problems of technical education in the state. The state government would never accept the unilateral slashing of quota fo...
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