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Quote:Naveen Approves Rs 2,000-Crore Master Plan To Develop VSSUT At Burla
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday approved the master plan for transformation of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Technology (VSSUT) at Burla in Odisha’s Sambalpur district.
As per the plan, the transformation of the institute will be executed in three phases with a budget of Rs 2,000 crore.
... The plan entails that the VSSUT would be developed into a multi-disciplinary engineering and research university by 2030. To be made at par with IIT and NIT, it will have 7 schools including School of Engineering, Skill Development Centre, School of Medical Technology and School of Basic Science.
Those schools would have more than 14 different departments, 24 engineering programmes and 27 centres of excellence. Besides classrooms, each school will have the facility of laboratory, research centre, professors’ chambers and students’ gallery.
Each centre of excellence will have tie-up with respective industries and at least one former student will serve as a mentor there. It will also serve as a nodal centre for consultation and research unit for development of urban and rural areas.
The student intake capacity of the VSSUT will be increased ... to 10,864.