Existing Regional Universities are - Utkal University
- From http://www.exam-results.com/universitiesinorissa/utkaluniversity.htm
The Utkal University, established
in the year 1943, is the seventeenth oldest University in India.
Its present campus at Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar is located in an area
of 399.9 Acres with the Sainik School to its north, National High
way No.5 to its south, Regional Research Laboratory and Institute
of Physics to its west and the south Eastern Railway line to its
east. The Foundation stone of this Campus was laid by Dr.Rajendra
Prasad, the first President of India on 1st January 1958 and the
Campus was inaugurated by Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, the second President
of India on second January 1963. This is a teaching-cum-affiliating
University. There are at present twentysix Post-Graduate Departments
located in the University Campus for Post-Graduate studies and research
in various disciplines of Science, Humanities ,Business Administration,
Social Science, Law and Commerce. The total number of students in
the P.G. Department of the campus at Vani Vihar is nearly 3,000.
... The University University has now
the jurisdiction over 9 districts, viz, Angul, Cuttack, Dhenkanal,
Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Khurda, Nayagarh and Puri ... At present the University has twentysix
Post-Graduate teaching and research departments located within the
campus and three constituent Institutions, viz. Directorate of Distance
and Continuing Education, University Law College at Vani Vihar and
M.S. Law College at Cuttack. Besides the regular courses, twentysix
sponsored courses are offered under the diresct academic control
of the P.G.Council of the University.
- Berhampur University
- From http://www.exam-results.com/universitiesinorissa/berhampuruniversity.htm
The Berhampur University came
into existence on 2nd January 1967 being inaugurated by Dr. A.N.
Khosla, the then Governor of Orissa and the first Chancellor of
the University. The University was later shifted to the present
site known as Bhanja Bihar, named after the celebrated poet of Orissa
Kabisamrat Upendra Bhanja. Spreading over an area of about two hundred
fifty acres the university is twelve kilometres and 5 kilometers
away from the Berhampur City and Sea-beach of Gopalpur respectively.
The university has a wide area under
its jurisdiction comprising the 7 districts of Ganjam, Gajapati, Koraput,
Rayagada, Nowrangapur, Malkangiri, and Phulbani. Eleven Govt.
colleges, sixty two non Govt. colleges and twenty six professional
technical colleges are affiliated to the university (as on 30.11.01).
To the credit of the university these institutes cater to the need
of students in various subjects and disciplines such as Arts, Science,
Commerce, Law, Education, Medicine, Engineering, Pharmacology, Homoeopathy,
Ayurveda, Nursing, Military Science, Library Science and Fine Arts.
There are twenty post-graduate departments
in the university offering specialized subjects and M. Phil programmes.
Some of the faculties like Mass Communication, Tourism and Indian
Monuments, Electronic Science, Computer Science, Marine Science
make the University stand apart from some other universities of
the country.
- Sambalpur University
- From http://www.exam-results.com/universitiesinorissa/samburuniversity.htm
- The Sambalpur University Act
was passed by the Orissa Legislature on 10th December, 1966 to fulfill
long cherished dream of the people of Western Orissa for establishment
of a University. The University started functioning from 1st January,
1967 with Prof.Parsuram Mishra as the first Vice-Chancellor. The
University was inaugurated on 4th January, 1967 by Hon’ble
Chancellor A.N.Khosla. The University started functioning in 1967
in a rented private building at Dhanupali, Sambalpur and in Government
building at Ainthapali, Sambalpur from 1968 - 72. In the year 1973
the University was shifted to the present campus named Jyoti Vihar
at Burla.
The territorial jurisdiction of the University covers 10 districts
of the state of Orissa namely Sambalpur, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda,
Deogarh, Bargarh, Bolangir, Subarnapur, Nawapara, Kalahandi, Boudh
and Athamallik Sub-Division of Angul District.
The University at Jyoti Vihar provides Post-Graduate education in
Twenty-seven subjects through Twenty Post-Graduate Departments.
The University Post-Graduate Departments offer one-year study Programme
for M.Phil Degree, two years study programme for the Degrees of
M.A./M.Sc./LL.M./ Business Administration/ M.Lib & Inf.Science,
One-Year P.G. Diploma Course in Computer Science & Application
and Diploma Course in Sambalpuri Studies and Three-Year course in
M.C.A. and Executive M.B.A.
- Fakir Mohan University
- Jurisdiction: Bhadrak and Balasore
- North Orissa University
- Jurisdiction: Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar
The first three in the above list have a huge number of affiliated colleges. So they may be split. The article at http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowOriyaColumn.asp?id=10234 suggests some approaches to split them. Using some ideas from there, and considering 50-60 affiliated colleges to be a manageable one, following is a possible break-up.
| Current University (number of affiliated colleges) | Districts under its jurisdiction | Location of new regional/metropolitan
Universities - By 2015
(GOAL: Bring the average number of affiliated colleges per university to between 50-60) | Location of new Unitary Universities - By 2011 | Coverage of urban areas by local universities - First phase (By 2020)
(GOAL: Have a local university in an urban agglomeration with a population of 100 K) | Coverage of urban areas by local universities - Second phase
(By 2025/2030/2035)
(GOAL: Have a local university in an urban agglomeration with a population of 100 K) | | Utkal (330) | Angul | Angul | | | | | | Cuttack | | Ravenshaw (already made) | | | | | Dhenkanal | | | | Dhenkanal - 2025 | | | Jajpur | Panikoili or Kalinganagar | | | | | | Jagatsinghpur | Paradeep | | | | | | Kendrapada | | | | Kendrapada - Pattamundai - 2030 | | | Khurda | *Bhubaneswar Metropolitan U* | | | | | | Nayagarh | | | | | | | Puri | Puri | | | | | Berhampur (91) | Ganjam | | Khallikote | | Aska-Kabisuryanagar 2030/35
(whenever it gets to 100K) | | | Gajapati | | | Parlakhemundi (exception to the 100K guideline) | | | | Koraput | Jeypore (geographical coverage) | | | | | | Malkangiri | | | | | | | Nowrangpur | | | | | | | Phulbani | Phulbani | | | | | | Rayagada |
| | Rayagada | | | Sambalpur (177) | Baragarh | | | Baragarh | | | | Bolangir | Balangir | | | Titlagarh-Kesinga
- 2030/35
(whenever it gets to 100K) | | | Boudha | | | | | | | Deogarh | | | | | | | Jharsuguda | | | Jharsuguda | | | | Kalahandi | Bhawanipatna | | | | | | Nawapara | | | | | | | Sambalpur | | GM | | | | | Sonepur | | | | | | | Sundergarh | Rourkela | | | Sundergarh - 2025/2030
(whenever it gets to 100K) | | Fakirmohan (63) | Balasore | | | | | | | Bhadrak | | | Bhadrak | Dhamara - Chandabali - 2030 | | NOU (69) | Keonjhar | Keonjhar (geographical coverage) | | Joda-Barbil | | | | Mayurbhanj | | | | |
A slightly different approach from making so many new universities would be to have multiple campuses of universities except for a few special cases. For example: - Utkal University may have new campuses in Anugul, Panikoili/Kalinganagar, Paradeep and Puri by 2015.
- Berahampur University may have new campuses in Jeypore and Phulbani by 2015.
- Sambalpur university may have new campuses in Balangir and Bhawanipatna by 2015.
- Fakirmohan University may have a campus in Bhadrak by 2020.
- NOU may have a campus in Keonjhar by 2015.
- By virtue of the population in its metropolitan area, Rourkela should have a new university on its own.
- GM and Khallikote are still made to unitary universities.
- Bhubaneswar-Cuttack metropolitan University is still made in line of Delhi University or City University of New York.
Each campus has its own Pro Vice Chancellor and has its set of affiliated colleges and has more or less the freedom that a current VC has.
One advantage of this approach is that the rest of the world is not confused by new university names and the existing branding carries over.
Based on the above I am thinking of the following guidelines.- Urban area of 100K has at least a branch campus of a university.
- Urban area of 500K has at least a university of its own.
- Urban area of 2 million has a metropolitan university.
- A constituent college which has 150 faculty becomes a unitary university.
- A branch campus of a university which has 150 faculty becomes a university on its own.
- Branch campuses start with 30-50 faculty. (Note NOU and Fakirmohan have 30 faculty now.)
- Colleges and branch campuses can grow in many ways and in some sense can chart their own destiny and growth.
- Besides approaching their university and the state for increasing faculty size they can also do many additional things.
- Get support from UGC and ask state for some kind of a match.
- Get money from MPLAD or MLALAD and ask state for some kind of a match.
- Get money from industry and ask state for some kind of a match.
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From http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowOriyaColumn.asp?id=10234.
Dear Chief Minister Mr. Patnaik,
A current in-depth cross national investigation [1] which as also lauded by UNESO report [2] on higher education
, economic growth and development using poverty and human development indicators shows that:
* higher education enhances the earnings of individuals and contributes to economic development;
* higher education makes a significant contribution to reduction in absolute as well as relative poverty;
* higher education is related to human development indicators which reflect other dimensions of human poverty, as it significantly reduces infant mortality and increases life expectancy.
On the other hand our first prime minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru always wanted the establishment of institutes of higher education in rural areas so that the rural children need not go to cities for higher or technical education
. Taking note of this UP government has earlier proposed NEHRU GRAM BHARATI VISHWAVIDYALAYA at Dubawal which is being inaugurated recently [3].
Recently many states such as AP, UP, TN, Chhattisgarh etc in India have been establishing new University to boost higher education in coming years at the local/regional level. Since the establishment of North Orissa and Fakir Mohan Universities, both in North Part of the state, no new general state University has been established in the state.
Orissa is a state of which large part comes under rural area. Especially KBK which consists of 1/3 of state’s total area comes under rural belt. Demand of a state University in KBK region since establishment of North Orissa University has not yet been met.
Number of affiliated colleges in various general state Universities as data collected are:
Utkal University (UU): 330
Sambalpur University (SU): 177
Berhampur University (BU): 91
North Orissa University (NOU): 69 (plus 12 technical colleges)
Fakir Mohan University (FMU): 63
Some of the technical colleges
who are listed under state universities as affiliated colleges might already have been redistributed to BPUT by now or made Unitary Universities. Most of these technical colleges are from Utkal University and in the state capital region of the state.
Districts affiliated with these state Universities are as follows.
UU: Khordha, Puri, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Jagatsingpur, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Anugul (not all Anugul district) (in total 9 districts under UU)
SU: Sundergarh, Jharsuguda, Deogarh, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Sonepur, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Boudh, part of Anugul (in total 10 and half districts under SU)
BU: Ganjam, Gajpati, Kandhamal, Rayagada. Malkangir, Koraput, Nabarangpur (in total 7 districts under BU)
NOU: Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar (in total 2 districts under NOU)
FMU: Balasore, Bhadark (in total 2 districts under FMU)
On regional basis two separate state universities (North Orissa and Fakir Mohan) has already been established separating from Utkal University in the past, but no separate University has been yet established from Sambalpur and/or Berhampur University.
Considering inaccessibility location wise some Universities are inconvenient to serve local districts, such as Malkangir, Koraput and Nabarangpur under BU, Kalahandi, Nuapada and Boudh under SU, due to long distance and poor road connectivity where as it is marginally acceptable for most of the districts under UU, FMU and NOU.
Based on administration of number of affiliated colleges there should be at least another two Universities separating from Utkal University and one separating from Sambalpur University. For Orissa on an average 100 affiliated colleges in one University looks acceptable at this point of time similar to BU, NOU and FMU.
Mode 1: Eight New State University
One possibility is to establish one University each in Rourkela (Sundergarh), Keonjhargarh (Keonjhar), Anugul (Dhenkanal-Angul), Jajpur road/Kalinga Nagar (for undivided Cuttack dist), Bhawanipatna (Kalahandi-Nuapada), Balangir (Balangir-Sonepur), Phulbani (Boudh-Kandhamal) and Koraput (undivided Koraput dist) in future.
Model 2: Four New State University
Second possibility is to establish four state Universities based on number of affiliated colleges, inaccessibility and regional requirements, one in Kalahandi region (redistributing 4 districts from SU) second one in Koraput region (redistributing 4 districts from BU), third one in Jajpur, Jagatsingpur, Kendrapada and Dhenkanal region, and fourth one in Sundergarh (Rourkela)- Anugul-Deogarh region.
Model 3: One New State University
The last possibility which looks economical and practical at this point is to establish a State University in KBK taking colleges from each four affiliated districts from BU and SU based on region, inaccessibility and redistributing number of affiliated colleges as below.
SU will have colleges in Sundergarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Deogarh, Bargarh, Sonepur, and Anugul (all colleges redistributed from UU).
BU will have colleges in Ganjam, Gajpati, Kandhamal, Nayagarh (redistributed from UU) and Khordha district except capital region, Jatni and Khordha town (redistributed from UU).
UU will have colleges in capital region, Khordha town, Jatni, Puri, Cuttack, Kedrapada, Jagatsingpur and Dhenkanal.
FMU will have colleges in Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur (redistributed from UU)
NOU will have colleges in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar
Proposed new state University in KBK will have colleges in Malkangiri, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Balangir and Boudh.
Location wise Kalahandi is centrally located to all KBK districts and are well connected by state and national highway in KBK. Therefore, I urge you to immediately consider establishing a new general State University in KBK region either in Kalahandi or Korput (which would not have a Central University) to boost education in rural part of the state as well as KBK region specially.
With best regards
Digambara Patra
Reference:
[1] J. B. G. Tilak; Post-elementary education, poverty and development in India
and Role of post-basic education in alleviation of poverty and development;
Centre of African Studies
, University of Edinburgh.
[2] J. B. G. Tilak; Higher education, poverty and development; International
Institute for Educational Planning Newsletter, Vol. XXV, No 1, January –
March 2007.
[3] http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=46851
Dr Digambara Patra
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street
-P.O. Box: 11-0236
Beirut, Lebanon
Email: digpatra@rediffmail.com
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