Recommendation of Higher Education Task Force of Orissa for Kalahandi

Following is the recommnedation of higher education task force for Kalahandi and a Govt College for Nuapada in the final report.

• South Western Orissa University in Bhawanipatna
• Center of BPUT in Kalahandi
• Medical College in Kalahandi
• Center for Arid Zone Cultivation in Kalahandi

Details across the state can be found in the final report by the task force.

The recommendations include:

Affiliating universities as:

• South Orissa University in Jeypore
• South Western Orissa University in Bhawanipatna
• Western Orissa University in Balangir
• South Eastern Orissa University in Parliakhemundi (earlier it was South Orissa Univ in Parliakhemunid)
• Central Orissa University in Angul
• Metropolitan University in Rourkela

Banch Campuses: New University branches in all dist of coastal, central and north Orissa, Phulbani and Rayagada such as Branch of Utkal University in Banki, Adarspur, Puri, Nayagarh, Khurdha, Jagatsingpur, Jajpur, Kendraapada, Dehnkanal and Bhadrak, branch of Berhampur Univ in Phulbani and Rayagada. branch of Fakir Mohan Univ in Balasore and branch of North Orissa univ in Keonjhar and Baripada.

Health Universities proposed for SCB, VSS and MKCG medical colleges to affiliate other medical colleges in their respective regions.

Management Education Univ and Open Univ in Bhubaneswar.

Centers of BPUT in Bhubaneswar, Bhawanipatna, Berhampur, Balangir and Baripada.

Unitray Univ for Rama Devi, GM and Khallikote colleges.

Center of Utkal Univ of culture in Cuttack, Sambalpur and Berhampur.

 Medical colleges in Balasore, Bhawanipatna, Bhubaneswar, Balangir, Koraput, Baripada, and Parliakhemundi.

Institute of Textile Technology in Bargarh, College of Diary Science & Technology in Parliakhemunid and Baripada, College of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science Bhanjanagar and Chiplima, Institute of Tribal Arts & Culture in Phulbani and Institute of Colleges and University Teachers Training at Bhubaneswar.

There are many research centers but all research centers related to fundamental science are being surprisingly recommended in Bhubaneswar instead of distributing like BPUT centers, this is when Bhubaneswar has already many research institute of national importance like IoP, ILS, NISER, IMST, Institute of Material Science, Institute of Mathematics & Application, etc directly conducting research in fundamental science. For example the main objective of NISER fulfill all the proposal related to fundamental science suggested by the task force, why should similar centers should be made in the same locality rather breeding them in other geographical locations where fundamental research work is weak in the state?

Though task force has suggested in the text to distribute institution based on undivided dist and later on in the dist level, the number of recommendations in total does not achieve this goal either. Still among undivided dist Puri-Khurdha (Bhubaneswar), Cuttack and Ganjam (Ganjam+Gajapati) lead in total number of recommended proposals despite presence of many private and Govt institutions there by now rather than any undivided dist not having any university/govt medical college till now. In the case of divided dist also Khudha(Bhubaneswar), Cuttack and Ganjam lead the race contradicting task force’s own suggestion. None of the divided district in Western Orissa gets any branch campus of University. Backward dist like Gajapati has drawn extraordinary attention than any other equally backward districts like Nuapada, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri, Boudh or Sonepur by the taskforce.