In
a bid to give great boost to the TDP-BJP government in Andhra Pradesh state,
the finance minister Arun Jaitely has proposed as many as three prestigious
national level institutions for the state in his budget proposals. They are All
India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), an Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) and an Agriculture University.
These three premiere institutes are part of the 11 promised to
residuary Andhra Pradesh in the AP Reorganisations Act. Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is keen on starting national-level institutes like
IIT from the current academic year from a temporary campus.
However, experts are against the establishment of premiere
institutes like IITs from a temporary campus with insufficient infrastructre
mainly laboratories, as it would lower the "brand image" of
institutes like IITs and IIMs.
Earlier, Chandrababu Naidu finalised the location of 11
national-level institutes to be set up in the state in accordance with the AP
Reorganisation Act. All three regions of the state — south Andhra, north Andhra
and Rayalaseema — have been included.
District collectors have already set the process in motion to
identify these land intensive institutes because each requires a minimum of 300
acres.
The proposed 11 premier institutes in all three regions (circuits)
of AP are as follows: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), national
Institute of Information Technology (NIT), national institute of Disaster
management (NIDM), Indan Institute of Management (IIM), International Institute
of Information Technology, Petroleum and Tribal Universities, Indian Institute
of technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
and Central University (CU).
