Government Works up a Plan to Increase Engg. College in Bihar
Patna: Mar. 30, 2007
The state government has decided to invite nation's top 10 engineering colleges to come to Bihar and set up their institutes in an attempt to put a brake on mass exodus of students from Bihar causing a huge vacuum in the state's technical and educational environment, officials in Patna said on Friday.
"We will provide them the infrastructure and funding, including land and building that they will need just as we did with the BIT-Mesra," sources in the government said.
As in the case of BIT-Mesra, 50 percent of the seats would be reserved for the residents of Bihar while the other 50 percent would be available for people from other states.
In its attempt to give a much-needed impetus to engineering education in Bihar, the government has come up with a three-prong plan to set up more such colleges in the state.
While in some areas like Chhapra and Barauni, the government would open state-owned engineering colleges under direct control of the state's Science and Technology ministry, in other places, colleges would be open on the pattern of BIT-Mesra where top engineering colleges would be invited to set up their institutions in the state at very lucrative and liberal terms.
The third plan includes opening of engineering colleges by private investors with minimal intervention from the government. Such investors would be required to get a no objection certificate from the proper department and that will be all, officials said.
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