Orissa poised to become knowledge hub of eastern India

The Hindu Business Line, June 23, 2009

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa is poised to become the knowledge and education hub of eastern India with a number of central institutions and private universities coming up in the State, the Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, has said.

Work for setting up one engineering college each at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi and Berhampur in Ganjam district is already in progress, while one IIT, one IIIT (Indian Institute of Information Technology) and one unit of NISER has already come up, Mr Patn aik said here on Monday.

The Chief Minister, who was here to inaugurate a building of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, said an agriculture college would also come up at Bhawanipatna and the State's oldest engineering college at Burla will get the status of a deemed u niversity. - PTI