United News of India
Berhampur, Jan 8: The site selection committee for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Orissa, has selected Laudigaon on the outskirts of Berhampur city for the permanent campus of the proposed campus of the premier institutions, principal secretary, skill development and technical education Laxmi Narayan Gupta said here Friday.
However, the committee has not yet taken any decision on the temporary campus. Ganjam district administration has identified around 200 acres of land in Laoudigaon which is situated 20-km away from Berhampur railway station and 15 km from the National Highway – 5, Gupta said.
A five-member team led by Gupta Friday visited the Industrial Training Institute Berhampur, the Gandhi Institute of Technology and another private institution identified by the state government for the temporary campus of the proposed IISER.
The other members of the team were joint secretary of human resources development Pravin Kumar, director of IISER Bhopal Prof Vinod Kumar Singh, director of IIT Bhubaneswar Prof Ratnam Rajkumar and chief engineer, CPWD, Ramesh Chandra Mishra. The team also visited Laoudigaon.
“We would enroll 50 students in the first batch which may go up to 200 later,” said Prof Singh. The shifting to the permanent campus from the temporary campus may take two to three years, he added. UNI