Gujrat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi (Left) and Naveen Patnaik, Orissa Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik ( Right).
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Bhubaneswar (Orissa) :
Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi has technically outplayed one of his close political bachelor friend and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the playing court of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh's court while playing the IIT game.
When Temple City of Bhubaneswar is busy with mid-day napping, Bapu's land Gandhinagar is working over time to achieve the target.
The Chief Minister knows, if he is to come out successful in the game of education, he has to out smart the old guard of Congress like Arjun Singh and his friend Patnaik.
When Singh is busy in making the NDA ruled States painful and complicated, firebrand Modi has proved smarter than him.
Let us sample the case of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Gandhinagar.
Evenr since the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) notified the IIT Gandhinagar, the Chief Minister took the lead in making it a success.
With the announcement of IIT Bombay as the 'mentor' for IIT Gandhinagar, he advised his officials to take up the arrangements for fulfilling the requirements.
So with the initiative, now IIT Bombay has come out with advertisement of faculty position for IIT Gandhinagar.
Seeing the faster pace of the Gandhinagar, educationists of Orissa staying abroad urged upon the Chief Minister to take up the case, who seems oblivious about the fact?
Leading Non Resident Oriyas(NROs) have urged the Chief Minister to take up issue with IIT Kharagpur so that it comes with a similar one for IIT Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
They are worried because, if IIT Khragpur would not start recruiting faculties for IIT Bhubaneswar from now, it will not only help in getting good quality faculties from all over the world.
Once we take up the recruitment than it will help to facilitate shifting of IIT Bhubaneswar to it original campus at Bhubaneswar in couple of years. They point out here in Orissa, we are busy in wasting our time fighting over nothing.
As some of the ministers and lawmakers want the IIT Bhubaneswar to start at CET Campus, while experts advise to begin from the premises of IIT Kharagpur.
Now counseling for the new IITs are on and this is high time for the State government to take up the issue with IIT Kharagpur, feel they.
According to the calendar, academic session for IIT Bhubaneswar will begin from 24 July in the Karagpur campus of IIT.
