Finance Minister Jaitley: AIIMS in all states, 5 new IITs, 5 new IIMs

While presenting the Union Budget for the year 2014-2015, the Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley has announced several new institutions to boost higher education in India.

He announced new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will be in all states of India. 5 new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will come up along with equal number of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).

Rs 500 crore has been allotted for setting up AIIMS. The new AIIMS will come up in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidarbha (Mahrashtra) and Purvanchal. Modi government has asked 13 states that do not have any AIIMS to identify locations. These include Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Jharkhand, Punjab, Assam, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

In West Bengal, AIIMS will be established at Kalyani in Nadia district. Building of AIIMS Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh is also underway.

12 more government medical colleges with dental facilities will be setup. FTII Pune and SRFTI Kolkata will be given the status of ‘Institutes of National Importance’. ok Nayak National Centre for Higher Education and Madan Mohan Malviya Scheme for Teacher Training will also be established.

According to statistics on the Teach for India website: "In India today, 4 percent of our children never start school. 58 percent don't complete primary schools. And 90 percent don’t complete school."

Pattisapu Srividya of Visakhapatnam topped AIIMS entrance test results 2014

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has announced the results of its entrance test for MBBS programme 2014-2015. Around 2.35 lakh students appeared for AIIMS MBBS entrance exams. The institute has decided to conduct physical counselling for the allocation of seats to be held from July 8 to July 11 in New Delhi. Candidates will have ability to choose institute during councelling based on rank obtained.

IITs to increase fees by 80% in 2013

Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) is all set to increase the yearly fees by 80% for undergraduate courses. The fees will be increased to RS 90,000 annually from Rs 50,000. The final decision will be taken by the IIT Council on Monday. This hike was recommended by IIT Standing Committee. A government panel has recommended to increase the fees to Rs 2 - 2.5 lacs yearly. HRD Ministry has supported the idea to increase the fees of IITs to match those of Indian Institute of Management (IIMs). IIMs presently charge around 3 times that of IITs.

CMAT to be the only examination for admission at B-Schools in India for the year 2012 – 2014 ?

AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has launched CMAT (Common Management Admission Test) for getting admission in all B- Schools through out India for the academic year 2012- 2014 Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI), an association of B- School and Association of Indian Management Schools ( AIMS) have objected to the idea of a single entrance test.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) release notice for AIPGMEE 2012

The All India Postgraduate Medical and Dental exam is going to be held on 8th January 2012. AIIMS has issues notice for cancellation of NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Post Graduate courses). Interested candidates can apply for post graduate course through the website - http://www.aiimsexams.org/

New National Institute of Design to be set to meet needs of Industrial Designers

Four new National Institute of Design (NID) to be set to meet need of Industrial Designers. The institute will be set up in Assam, Andra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana so that more and more youngsters take up designing course. The National Design Policy of 2011 is encouraging the creation of departments of design in all the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology ), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) as well as private colleges.