Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit
Can Assam support another University? We need a world class university, yes, but why build another institution. Why can we not invest in Guwahati University itself? I would propose diverting the Airport Road away from the University campus, combine the resources and infrastructure of the Engineering and Law colleges and you have an enormous area to build a world class university. It needs financial commitments but needs a strong empowered administration free from government interference more. Finally, is there will the students and teachers also share the ambition to build a world class university in Guwahati? Best regards Rajiv -- Original Message -- Received: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:27:08 PM SGT From: Manoj Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit *Assam International University ? Pratap Bora* *T*he recent declaration by the Chief Minister of Assam regarding the Central Minister for Human Resource Development's announcement of establishment of one university of international standard in Assam is a development pregnant with many implications. Universities, as these are generally known today, were born in medieval Europe and were gradually exported to other parts of the world as a part of the European expansion. In India, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras universities were established in 1857 synchronizing with Sydney and Melbourne Universities in 1850 in Australia. However, universities with classical and spiritual ideologies had been first established in India more than 2000 years ago. Two of them, Nalanda and Taksila were known in countries like Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malayasia, Burma, Ceylon, Cambodia and Indonesia. As these modern cradles of wisdom started growing the universities of Punjab (1882), Banaras (1916), Mysore (1916), Patna (1917) and Osmania (1918) were established in India progressively. Assam joined this quest for sweetness and light with Gauhati University in 1947-48. Today our State has five national level universities and one Indian Institute of Technology. Still there is a very wide void and enough space for one international university in Assam. Twenty first century has already exhibited many uncertainties. The challenges before mankind today are entirely different from those faced by us during the whole period of human existence. Technology has led us to a new era which is yet to acquire a proper nomenclature. Information boom, automation, electronic revolution, biotechnology, nano technology, to name only the familiar few, have created for us a new world, the ways of which are not known to us. The new concept of a modern university is that it is on the one side a huge warehouse of information and on the other an excellent workshop for production of human resource capable of handling this information through knowledge and wisdom for welfare of man and nature. These universities must offer impressive range of academic resources and research facilities. It must have a state of the art library with three to five million volumes with on-line catalog system and database search service. It must subscribe to at least 30,000 periodicals. Its extensive research facilities must have wings of, 1) Biotechnology, 2) High Energy Synchrotron Studies, 3) Nano Fabrication Facility, 4) Centre for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering), 5) Centre for Specific Regional Studies. The major fields should be created after most careful consideration. Besides being highly competitive the fields ought to be able to fulfil universal as well as regional needs. These must include, Outer-space Engineering, Agro-biological Engineering, Cellular - Biology, City and Regional Planning, Environmental Engineering, Communication Technology, Consumer Economics, Development Sociology, Food science, Hotel Administration, Human Service Studies, Immunology, Rural Development, Management Science, Neurobiology, Nuclear Science. Atmospheric Science and Performing Art beside basic fields of Science and Humanities. The seed money required for building up infrastructure par excellence for such an institution is approximately Rs 3000 crore. The figure is carefully projected by comparing expenditure on infrastructure of two IITs and two Central Universities of India and that of two leading universities of the world. As suggested by the Chief Minister land required will be from six to eight hundred hectares. Most important is the careful planning of the entire project making through comparative study of the master plans of major European, American, Australian and Asian Universities and keeping in mind the history and heritage of Assam. The university has to be raised at a tranquil, unpolluted locality. Instead of further eroding either forest area or the available land in tribal belt two outstations of
Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit
http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/1430.html On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Rajiv Baruah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Assam support another University? We need a world class university, yes, but why build another institution. Why can we not invest in Guwahati University itself? I would propose diverting the Airport Road away from the University campus, combine the resources and infrastructure of the Engineering and Law colleges and you have an enormous area to build a world class university. It needs financial commitments but needs a strong empowered administration free from government interference more. Finally, is there will the students and teachers also share the ambition to build a world class university in Guwahati? Best regards Rajiv -- Original Message -- Received: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:27:08 PM SGT From: Manoj Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit *Assam International University ? Pratap Bora* *T*he recent declaration by the Chief Minister of Assam regarding the Central Minister for Human Resource Development's announcement of establishment of one university of international standard in Assam is a development pregnant with many implications. Universities, as these are generally known today, were born in medieval Europe and were gradually exported to other parts of the world as a part of the European expansion. In India, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras universities were established in 1857 synchronizing with Sydney and Melbourne Universities in 1850 in Australia. However, universities with classical and spiritual ideologies had been first established in India more than 2000 years ago. Two of them, Nalanda and Taksila were known in countries like Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malayasia, Burma, Ceylon, Cambodia and Indonesia. As these modern cradles of wisdom started growing the universities of Punjab (1882), Banaras (1916), Mysore (1916), Patna (1917) and Osmania (1918) were established in India progressively. Assam joined this quest for sweetness and light with Gauhati University in 1947-48. Today our State has five national level universities and one Indian Institute of Technology. Still there is a very wide void and enough space for one international university in Assam. Twenty first century has already exhibited many uncertainties. The challenges before mankind today are entirely different from those faced by us during the whole period of human existence. Technology has led us to a new era which is yet to acquire a proper nomenclature. Information boom, automation, electronic revolution, biotechnology, nano technology, to name only the familiar few, have created for us a new world, the ways of which are not known to us. The new concept of a modern university is that it is on the one side a huge warehouse of information and on the other an excellent workshop for production of human resource capable of handling this information through knowledge and wisdom for welfare of man and nature. These universities must offer impressive range of academic resources and research facilities. It must have a state of the art library with three to five million volumes with on-line catalog system and database search service. It must subscribe to at least 30,000 periodicals. Its extensive research facilities must have wings of, 1) Biotechnology, 2) High Energy Synchrotron Studies, 3) Nano Fabrication Facility, 4) Centre for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering), 5) Centre for Specific Regional Studies. The major fields should be created after most careful consideration. Besides being highly competitive the fields ought to be able to fulfil universal as well as regional needs. These must include, Outer-space Engineering, Agro-biological Engineering, Cellular - Biology, City and Regional Planning, Environmental Engineering, Communication Technology, Consumer Economics, Development Sociology, Food science, Hotel Administration, Human Service Studies, Immunology, Rural Development, Management Science, Neurobiology, Nuclear Science. Atmospheric Science and Performing Art beside basic fields of Science and Humanities. The seed money required for building up infrastructure par excellence for such an institution is approximately Rs 3000 crore. The figure is carefully projected by comparing expenditure on infrastructure of two IITs and two Central Universities of India and that of two leading universities of the world. As suggested by the Chief Minister land required will be from six to eight hundred hectares. Most important is the careful planning of the entire project making through comparative study of the master plans of major European, American, Australian and Asian Universities and keeping in mind
Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit
Intl University to follow the way of Intl hospital at Dispur! If International Hospital can exist, why not International Univ? To rehabilitate the former ministers wives,relative and officials wives as dean or so..The best idea.Let existing GHY Univ go to hell for them. Then some international extremist outfit will make a good hub and anotehr sarbananda /Samujjwal like man will study for another 2 long decades!! Bikash bg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/1430.html On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Rajiv Baruah wrote: Can Assam support another University? We need a world class university, yes, but why build another institution. Why can we not invest in Guwahati University itself? - Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Join them now. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit
Good idea! On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Rajiv Baruah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Assam support another University? We need a world class university, yes, but why build another institution. Why can we not invest in Guwahati University itself? I would propose diverting the Airport Road away from the University campus, combine the resources and infrastructure of the Engineering and Law colleges and you have an enormous area to build a world class university. It needs financial commitments but needs a strong empowered administration free from government interference more. Finally, is there will the students and teachers also share the ambition to build a world class university in Guwahati? Best regards Rajiv -- Original Message -- Received: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:27:08 PM SGT From: Manoj Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit *Assam International University ? Pratap Bora* *T*he recent declaration by the Chief Minister of Assam regarding the Central Minister for Human Resource Development's announcement of establishment of one university of international standard in Assam is a development pregnant with many implications. Universities, as these are generally known today, were born in medieval Europe and were gradually exported to other parts of the world as a part of the European expansion. In India, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras universities were established in 1857 synchronizing with Sydney and Melbourne Universities in 1850 in Australia. However, universities with classical and spiritual ideologies had been first established in India more than 2000 years ago. Two of them, Nalanda and Taksila were known in countries like Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malayasia, Burma, Ceylon, Cambodia and Indonesia. As these modern cradles of wisdom started growing the universities of Punjab (1882), Banaras (1916), Mysore (1916), Patna (1917) and Osmania (1918) were established in India progressively. Assam joined this quest for sweetness and light with Gauhati University in 1947-48. Today our State has five national level universities and one Indian Institute of Technology. Still there is a very wide void and enough space for one international university in Assam. Twenty first century has already exhibited many uncertainties. The challenges before mankind today are entirely different from those faced by us during the whole period of human existence. Technology has led us to a new era which is yet to acquire a proper nomenclature. Information boom, automation, electronic revolution, biotechnology, nano technology, to name only the familiar few, have created for us a new world, the ways of which are not known to us. The new concept of a modern university is that it is on the one side a huge warehouse of information and on the other an excellent workshop for production of human resource capable of handling this information through knowledge and wisdom for welfare of man and nature. These universities must offer impressive range of academic resources and research facilities. It must have a state of the art library with three to five million volumes with on-line catalog system and database search service. It must subscribe to at least 30,000 periodicals. Its extensive research facilities must have wings of, 1) Biotechnology, 2) High Energy Synchrotron Studies, 3) Nano Fabrication Facility, 4) Centre for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering), 5) Centre for Specific Regional Studies. The major fields should be created after most careful consideration. Besides being highly competitive the fields ought to be able to fulfil universal as well as regional needs. These must include, Outer-space Engineering, Agro-biological Engineering, Cellular - Biology, City and Regional Planning, Environmental Engineering, Communication Technology, Consumer Economics, Development Sociology, Food science, Hotel Administration, Human Service Studies, Immunology, Rural Development, Management Science, Neurobiology, Nuclear Science. Atmospheric Science and Performing Art beside basic fields of Science and Humanities. The seed money required for building up infrastructure par excellence for such an institution is approximately Rs 3000 crore. The figure is carefully projected by comparing expenditure on infrastructure of two IITs and two Central Universities of India and that of two leading universities of the world. As suggested by the Chief Minister land required will be from six to eight hundred hectares. Most important is the careful planning of the entire project making through comparative study of the master plans of major European, American, Australian and Asian Universities and keeping in mind the history and
Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit
Let us go back to basics: What is World Class Why any University needed at all. Why aim to get degrees to everybody I told in a meeting when they were planning to start IIT-G 'In Assam we do not need any Research-we could do a lot of Search' Every Tom -Dick was upset. Big NAME (World Class)Universities are scrambling to offer Distant Learning Programmes-Why? In other countries real progress comes from 16+ youth joining into the productive workforce + learning better at work.Here our 1625(some AASU45+)all lost at UNIV. GU VC has finally resigned - and his tight-lipped reasons :How to pay(for undeserved DA/TA/Pensions---). He had nothing about NanoTechnology -his pet. Summary: First Things First: Liberation Oxomiya Toka- you make all Ph.D's(and waste their1630 Years) AS we Told PM at 1st PCG Liberate us-and we Liberate You MM Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:01:44 +0530 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: assam@assamnet.org Subject: Re: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit Good idea! On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Rajiv Baruah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Can Assam support another University? We need a world class university, yes, but why build another institution. Why can we not invest in Guwahati University itself? I would propose diverting the Airport Road away from the University campus, combine the resources and infrastructure of the Engineering and Law colleges and you have an enormous area to build a world class university. It needs financial commitments but needs a strong empowered administration free from government interference more. Finally, is there will the students and teachers also share the ambition to build a world class university in Guwahati? Best regards Rajiv -- Original Message -- Received: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:27:08 PM SGT From: Manoj Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Assam International University-AT edit*Assam International University ? Pratap Bora* *T*he recent declaration by the Chief Minister of Assam regarding the Central Minister for Human Resource Development's announcement of establishment of one university of international standard in Assam is a development pregnant with many implications. Universities, as these are generally known today, were born in medieval Europe and were gradually exported to other parts of the world as a part of the European expansion. In India, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras universities were established in 1857 synchronizing with Sydney and Melbourne Universities in 1850 in Australia. However, universities with classical and spiritual ideologies had been first established in India more than 2000 years ago. Two of them, Nalanda and Taksila were known in countries like Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malayasia, Burma, Ceylon, Cambodia and Indonesia. As these modern cradles of wisdom started growing the universities of Punjab (1882), Banaras (1916), Mysore (1916), Patna (1917) and Osmania (1918) were established in India progressively. Assam joined this quest for sweetness and light with Gauhati University in 1947-48. Today our State has five national level universities and one Indian Institute of Technology. Still there is a very wide void and enough space for one international university in Assam. Twenty first century has already exhibited many uncertainties. The challenges before mankind today are entirely different from those faced by us during the whole period of human existence. Technology has led us to a new era which is yet to acquire a proper nomenclature. Information boom, automation, electronic revolution, biotechnology, nano technology, to name only the familiar few, have created for us a new world, the ways of which are not known to us. The new concept of a modern university is that it is on the one side a huge warehouse of information and on the other an excellent workshop for production of human resource capable of handling this information through knowledge and wisdom for welfare of man and nature. These universities must offer impressive range of academic resources and research facilities. It must have a state of the art library with three to five million volumes with on-line catalog system and database search service. It must subscribe to at least 30,000 periodicals. Its extensive research facilities must have wings of, 1) Biotechnology, 2) High Energy Synchrotron Studies, 3) Nano Fabrication Facility, 4) Centre for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering), 5) Centre for Specific Regional Studies. The major fields should be created after most careful consideration. Besides being highly competitive the fields ought to be able to fulfil universal as well as regional
