Monday, November 28, 2005
Suntimes report on the Center's response
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It now appears that there were two different proposals — one to set up four centres made during the NDA government’s tenure which was rejected by the Law Ministry and secondly a fresh proposal of the UPA government for setting up two institutes at Pune and Kolkata.
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Chitta's comment:
The above is puzzling. What has the law ministry got to do with setting up of NIS?
One possibility is that the law ministry was asked if the original NIS plan can be scrapped and the same idea can be introduced as IISERs and will that allow changing of locations (adding Kolkata and removing Bhubaneswar, Allahbad and Chennai), and the law ministry probably said yes.
It now appears that there were two different proposals — one to set up four centres made during the NDA government’s tenure which was rejected by the Law Ministry and secondly a fresh proposal of the UPA government for setting up two institutes at Pune and Kolkata.
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Chitta's comment:
The above is puzzling. What has the law ministry got to do with setting up of NIS?
One possibility is that the law ministry was asked if the original NIS plan can be scrapped and the same idea can be introduced as IISERs and will that allow changing of locations (adding Kolkata and removing Bhubaneswar, Allahbad and Chennai), and the law ministry probably said yes.
# posted by chitta @ 7:04 PM 
