02-28-2021, 10:18 PM
Following are excerpts from https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/...70085.html .
Quote:Will NIT-Rourkela rue missed chance or revive proposal?
NIT-R Director Prof Animesh Biswas, who was instrumental in getting the proposal sanctioned said, the institute can still revive it.
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With IIT-Kharagpur all set to offer MBBS course from the current academic session, NIT-Rourkela authorities are ruing a missed opportunity when the institute’s board of governors’ rejected a similar proposal more than two years back.
However, NIT-R Director Prof Animesh Biswas, who was instrumental in getting the proposal sanctioned said, the institute can still revive it.
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had sanctioned a proposal to set up a medical college for NIT-R on April 5, 2018.
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But on August 6, 2018, the then chairman of the board of governors, Dr Santrupt B Misra rejected the proposal terming it ‘premature’. He had said NIT-R neither had the expertise nor capital to move ahead with the proposal.
However, Biswas says a medical college and advanced research centre will help NIT-R grow, boost local economy and address the shortage of highly skilled manpower in the country.