Friday, June 22, 2007

 

IISER Punjab will be functional by July

IISER will be functional by July

The foundation stone of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research was laid by PM Manmohan Singh in September, 2006

Express News Service

Chandigarh, June 21: The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) will start functioning from Mahatma Gandhi PSIPA, Sector 26 in July. The announcement was part of the budget presentation in the Punjab Assembly.

The foundation stone of the institute was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in September last year in Mohali. Though starting in PSIPA, the institute will later be shifted to a campus in Mohali.

The institute will have facilities for both graduate and post graduate classes. Funded by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, the cost of the project is estimated at around Rs 500 crore. The aim is to promote scientific research and technological development and help improve the level of pure as well as applied sciences.

It is proposed that the institute would have academic programmes in physical sciences, chemical sciences, mathematics, material sciences, environment and earth system sciences, life sciences and computer sciences. Apart from these, the institute would also admit post-doctoral fellows.

When fully established, the total strength of the integrated MSc programme in each discipline is proposed to be 1,000 and that of the doctoral and post-doctoral programmes about 1,055.



Tuesday, June 12, 2007

 

NISER deadline for submitting application form is extended till June 15 2007

NISER web site was very slow and then went down for possibly more than a week just around its original deadline for submission of application form.

The new deadline to submit application is June 15 2007 and the application form can be obtained from NISER website http://www.iopb.res.in/niser/admission.php or from the Homi Bhabha web site http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/nisernest or from here (application form, information brochure). See also http://www.orissawatch.org/?p=213.


Thursday, June 07, 2007

 

State to hand over 300 acres free of cost for establishment of NISER: NewIndianExpress

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to hand over 300 acres of land free of cost for establishment of the National Institute of Science and Education Research (NISER), Higher Education Minister Samir De informed the Assembly on Thursday.

Replying to a question from Ramesh Chandra Chau Pattnaik (BJD), the Minister said that as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced about opening the NISER here during his visit to Orissa in August last year, it is likely to receive the approval of the Union Cabinet soon.

De said the State Government has already identified 325.965 acres of Government land under Jatni tahasil for the Institute and the Revenue Department has been directed to hand over 300 acres of land free of cost to the Institute.

The Minister said that the Department of Atomic Energy has been taking necessary steps to set up the Institute and students would be inducted for the current academic year.

He denied that there has been delay in establishing the Institute in the State and outlined various steps taken by the Government as per the request of the Centre. The General Administration Department has been directed to provide 10 acres of Government land close to the Institute of Physics to set up the NISER campus, he added.

The Government, he further said, has also provided 30 quarters to the NISER for students' hostel and residential houses for the teaching as well as non-teaching staff while another 14 houses in an apartment would be provided to the Institute soon.

The Higher Education Minister said that Rs 841 crore would be invested in the NISER which would induct 40 students in pure science from this academic session.

In response to a supplementary from Bhibhuti Bhusan Harichandan (BJP), De said that the UPA Government has made a provision of rupees two crore this year for undertaking infrastructure development and denied that there has been inordinate delay in setting up of the Institute.

 

300 acres earmarked for NISER

BHUBANESWAR, June 7: The state government has earmarked over 300 acres of land near Jatni for the proposed National Institute of Science and Education Research (NISER), which is temporarily functioning at the Institute of Physics, said higher education minister Mr Samir Dey.
Responding to questions in the Assembly, Mr Dey said admissions for different courses in the institute were to begin this academic session.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, had announced the establishment of the NISER during his visit to Orissa in August last year. The announcement had come in the wake of protests over alleged shifting of a proposed National Institute of Sciences from Bhubaneswar to Kolkata.
The minister denied the charge that establishment of the proposed NISER had been delayed.

 

300 acres earmarked for NISER

BHUBANESWAR, June 7: The state government has earmarked over 300 acres of land near Jatni for the proposed National Institute of Science and Education Research (NISER), which is temporarily functioning at the Institute of Physics, said higher education minister Mr Samir Dey.
Responding to questions in the Assembly, Mr Dey said admissions for different courses in the institute were to begin this academic session.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, had announced the establishment of the NISER during his visit to Orissa in August last year. The announcement had come in the wake of protests over alleged shifting of a proposed National Institute of Sciences from Bhubaneswar to Kolkata.
The minister denied the charge that establishment of the proposed NISER had been delayed.

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