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Abid shah
New Delhi, August 27: Today’s decision by the Union Cabinet to take up the three Indian Institutes of Management, including the one proposed for Jammu and Kashmir, in the second phase is inevitably going to cast its shadow on the Central University that Jammuites have fiercely been agitating for since last summer.
The fate of the CU has somehow inextricably been linked to that of the IIM since both got Central Government’s nod. A tug of war began to bag the coveted institutions by both Jammu and Srinagar. This forced the higher ups of the State and Central Governments to assure people that the CU would come up in Jammu while the IIM would be set up at Srinagar.
Yet when the Central Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ms Ambika Soni, disclosed after Thursday’s Cabinet meeting that only four out of seven proposed IIMs would become functional from 2010-11 academic year, the loss of another year for the remaining three became a foregone conclusion. This includes the IIM announced by the Government for Jammu and Kashmir besides two others sanctioned for Uttrakhand and Rajasthan.
The Minister said that the three would commence from the 2011-12 academic year since the site for their coming up was yet to be identified unlike the lucky ones to be opened at Tirchy, Ranchi, Raipur and Roahtak in the first phase. Significantly, the Minister did not identify even the cities for the three States that are going to have IIMs in what she called in the second phase. This amounts to delay in the sanctioning of over Rs 140 crores for the IIM slated to be built in Jammu and Kashmir by a year at least.
And to confound the situation further, this delay may well lead to a corresponding procrastination in making the CU functional before the 2011-12 academic year though the CU was expected to set its academic year rolling from 2009 and complete this before the next summer.
Moreover, the people of Jammu have been set on confrontational course with those of the Valley over the proposed CU. This is in sharp contrast to the claims made until the other day by Jammu MP, Mr Madan Lal Sharma, besides other sections among the powers-that-be that the Central University would soon be set out on its academic course at Jammu and there would be no delay in this as has been made out by those who took to agitation.
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