Monday, November 21, 2005
Daily Pioneer on the all Orissa student convention on the NIS issue
NIS issue unites student leaders
Pioneer News Service/ Bhubaneswar
November 20, 2005 will be remembered as a historic day in the annals of student politics in Orissa. Student leaders, cutting across party lines got together at a students' convention organised by the Agamee Odisha, a leading voluntary organisation and Utkal University Teachers' Association to demand setting up of a National Institute of Sciences ( NIS) in the State.
More than 300 student leaders and students from across the state congregated in the auditorium of Utkal University to demand for the Centrally-funded national level institute in the State. They urged the UPA Government at the Centre to give Orissa its due, which was promised by the previous NDA Government.
This was for the first time in decades that student leaders of all political parties shared the same platform. The present president of the BJD students' wing Arun Sahu, president of the Congress students' front Jinesh Das, president of AISF Jyoti Ranjan Mohapartra and president of the Janata Dal (S) students' wing Amiya Pandav joined hands to voice the demand.
The convention reminded the Central Government of its decision in 2003 to establish four NISs in the country, including one in Orissa.
However, a recent declaration by the Government overlooked the previous decision, with Prime Minister stating that two Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) would be set up in Kolkata and Pune. Since the objective of both an IISER and a NIS is the same, this declaration has come as a shock to Oriyas across the country and abroad.
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The convention resolved to submit memoranda to Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Orissa Chief Minister and Governor and Chairman of Scientific Committee (PMO).
It was also decided to launch a postcard campaign in every college, hold an hour protest rally before the Raj Bhawan, undertake innovative protests like cleaning of college campus and to organise a protest rally in New Delhi.
The convention resolved to submit memoranda to Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Orissa Chief Minister and Governor and Chairman of Scientific Committee (PMO).
It was also decided to launch a postcard campaign in every college, hold an hour protest rally before the Raj Bhawan, undertake innovative protests like cleaning of college campus and to organise a protest rally in New Delhi.
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See details at http://www.baral.us/orissa/pdf/2005-nov22-pioneer.pdf
Pioneer News Service/ Bhubaneswar
November 20, 2005 will be remembered as a historic day in the annals of student politics in Orissa. Student leaders, cutting across party lines got together at a students' convention organised by the Agamee Odisha, a leading voluntary organisation and Utkal University Teachers' Association to demand setting up of a National Institute of Sciences ( NIS) in the State.
More than 300 student leaders and students from across the state congregated in the auditorium of Utkal University to demand for the Centrally-funded national level institute in the State. They urged the UPA Government at the Centre to give Orissa its due, which was promised by the previous NDA Government.
This was for the first time in decades that student leaders of all political parties shared the same platform. The present president of the BJD students' wing Arun Sahu, president of the Congress students' front Jinesh Das, president of AISF Jyoti Ranjan Mohapartra and president of the Janata Dal (S) students' wing Amiya Pandav joined hands to voice the demand.
The convention reminded the Central Government of its decision in 2003 to establish four NISs in the country, including one in Orissa.
However, a recent declaration by the Government overlooked the previous decision, with Prime Minister stating that two Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) would be set up in Kolkata and Pune. Since the objective of both an IISER and a NIS is the same, this declaration has come as a shock to Oriyas across the country and abroad.
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The convention resolved to submit memoranda to Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Orissa Chief Minister and Governor and Chairman of Scientific Committee (PMO).
It was also decided to launch a postcard campaign in every college, hold an hour protest rally before the Raj Bhawan, undertake innovative protests like cleaning of college campus and to organise a protest rally in New Delhi.
The convention resolved to submit memoranda to Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Orissa Chief Minister and Governor and Chairman of Scientific Committee (PMO).
It was also decided to launch a postcard campaign in every college, hold an hour protest rally before the Raj Bhawan, undertake innovative protests like cleaning of college campus and to organise a protest rally in New Delhi.
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See details at http://www.baral.us/orissa/pdf/2005-nov22-pioneer.pdf
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