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Bhubaneswar, Jan 19: Despite having adequate infrastructure, land and other things needed to get a university status, the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) and Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT) considered premier engineering colleges in the state are facing government’s apathy.
After repeated cries from various quarters, the government had formed a panel in October 2014 to assess the strength of CET to be eligible for a varsity. Another panel had also been formed to look after the capability of IGIT, Sarang, for consideration as a university.
However, both the panels are yet to submit their report after months of their constitution. Also in a recently held high-level conference on Employment, Technical Education and Training (ETET) ministers at New Delhi, Orissa minister Sanjay Das Burma did not make any specific demand for upgradation of CET or IGIT as universities.
The CET and IGIT are affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT). The CET has a campus area of 100 acres with administrative and academic building along with a sports complex, a ladies’ hostel with capacity for 500 inmates and a boys’ hostel with similar capacity. The college offers various undergraduate courses along with postgraduate and PhD courses.
Similarly, IGIT in Dhenkanal which is seeking university status has more than 179 acre land housing administrative and academic buildings, central library housing 27,000 books, computer centre, central workshop, knowledge centre and eight hostels for its students. Currently, the college is offering nine undergraduate courses and 11 postgraduate courses.
In the New Delhi conference, Das Burma is reported to have demanded inclusion of BPUT and VSSUT under University Grants Commission purview to avail financial benefit for the development of the institutions. However, reports do not corroborate any demand having been made for CET and IGIT.
