The Utkal University authorities have confirmed that the plan to set up the Institute of Science and Technology, an engineering college under the varsity, has been scrapped.
The university had already brought out admission notice and started receiving application forms for B.Tech and M.Tech courses. The university authorities, however, declined to explain the reasons for the decision.
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"There are certain problems. The engineering college plan did not materialize," said varsity registrar Debendra Nath Jena.
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Declining to elaborate, Jena said the Post Graduate (PG) Council was looking into the matter. "We have kept the plan in abeyance because of technical reasons," said PG council chairman P K Mishra. Despite attempts, vice-chancellor P K Sahoo was not available for comment.
Sources said the varsity abruptly terminated the ambitious plan after the government pointed out that it had not taken a no-objection certificate (NOC) to start the technical courses. The varsity is supposed to get a go-ahead from the Directorate of Technical Education and Training and obtain approval from the All India Council of Technical Education and Training (AICTE) for the engineering courses. The varsity had done neither and its too late this year for the procedure when admission process has already started.
"We did not receive any such application or accorded approval to the varsity," said technical education and training (TET) secretary Chandra Sekhar Kumar, adding for starting any course , the varsity has to get concurrence from the higher education, finance and technical education departments.
The latest development inconvenienced several students as they had already applied for admission. "The flip flop is ridiculous. I had already made two drafts as required of Rs 350 and Rs 150 to deposit the form. I had also started preparing for the Utkal entrance examination," said Swaraj Kumar, an M.Tech aspirant.
Officials pointed out that the cancellation means wastage of public money spent on building renovation for ISTUU. The varsity had renovated portions of Master of Computer Application (MCA) building and University Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UDPS) deploying the central public works department (CPWD) for the cancelled technical college.
Utkal advertised to admit 60 students each for B.Tech in electronics & communication engineering, computer science & engineering (CSE) and electrical & electronics engineering streams. Besides, it had invited applications for 30 seats of M.Tech in CSE. The university had announced to take B.Tech students by giving weightage to Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE), group discussion and personal interview. For M.Tech, however, the university had announced to conduct its own test.
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