3/10/2010
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil's proposal for an IIT exclusively for women in Amravati, her hometown and former Lok Sabha constituency, may have been rejected but now she's pushing for a Central University there and may very well get it too.
Sources said that Patil has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting that the existing Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, established in 1983, be upgraded to Central university status.
The PMO had forwarded this proposal to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry for its views.
Highly placed sources have confirmed that the HRD Ministry, while advising against upgrading the existing University, has suggested that a new Central University for women can instead be established at Amravati but in the 12th Plan period.
Incidentally, of all the 40 odd Central Universities in the country, none is exclusively for women.
The President of India is also Visitor to all Central Universities in the country.
President Patil's husband Devisingh Shekhawat has also served as Amravati Mayor.
President Patil's husband is described as an educationist and social worker on the website of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The HRD ministry announced 14 new Central universities in states as recently as 2008.
They are still struggling to find their feet. Of these, 12 were new varsities, and two were state universities upgraded to Central university status: Hari Singh Gaur University at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand.
Source: The Indian Express
The President is setting a bad precedent - even while serving as President she is lobbying like a local politician for setting up an institution in her hometown. She has obviously not grown to the stature of her position.
http://education.in.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4474044&page=0
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil's proposal for an IIT exclusively for women in Amravati, her hometown and former Lok Sabha constituency, may have been rejected but now she's pushing for a Central University there and may very well get it too.
Sources said that Patil has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting that the existing Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, established in 1983, be upgraded to Central university status.
The PMO had forwarded this proposal to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry for its views.
Highly placed sources have confirmed that the HRD Ministry, while advising against upgrading the existing University, has suggested that a new Central University for women can instead be established at Amravati but in the 12th Plan period.
Incidentally, of all the 40 odd Central Universities in the country, none is exclusively for women.
The President of India is also Visitor to all Central Universities in the country.
President Patil's husband Devisingh Shekhawat has also served as Amravati Mayor.
President Patil's husband is described as an educationist and social worker on the website of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The HRD ministry announced 14 new Central universities in states as recently as 2008.
They are still struggling to find their feet. Of these, 12 were new varsities, and two were state universities upgraded to Central university status: Hari Singh Gaur University at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Uttarakhand.
Source: The Indian Express
The President is setting a bad precedent - even while serving as President she is lobbying like a local politician for setting up an institution in her hometown. She has obviously not grown to the stature of her position.
http://education.in.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4474044&page=0
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