Under the scheme, 20 institutes were to receive the tag, but only 12 have between 2018 and 2021, with Reliance’s Jio Institute in Mumbai yet to be granted the status formally.
JNU applied for IoE tag in 2022. Parliamentary standing committee's report also highlights that nearly 8 yrs after IoE scheme's launch, only 12 of 20 institutes have been notified.
Education ministry informed parliamentary panel that UGC has recommended against West Bengal’s JU, while Tamil Nadu government has withdrawn proposal for AU.
Institutes had complained that flow of funds under Institutions of Eminence (IoE) scheme was patchy from 2019 to 2021. Pending portion of aid is for infrastructural development.
Oberoi, who belonged to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, retired in 2017. After his retirement, he kept his passion for the northeast alive through his camera.
UGC said private institutes on the list have been denied Institute of Eminence status because they did not figure in national or international rankings.
Mihir Shah taught a popular course on Political Economy of India’s Development. Ashoka University students & alumni have started a reinstatement petition.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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