Amethi set to join educational map of India
Rahul Gandhi to join the educational map of India with institutes of petroleum technology and hotel management coming up.
By PTI |
AMETHI: This Lok Sabha constituency of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is set to join the educational map of the country with institutes of petroleum technology and hotel management coming up here.
Concerted efforts are on to develop Amethi, once the constituency of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, and it already boasts of an Institute of Information Technology.
D M Reddy, chairman of the board of trustees of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Society, has written a letter to Rae Bareli's district magistrate for setting up the petroleum institute, which is scheduled to start its academic session in 2008-09.
The Uttar Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation has been asked to provide land for the institute and its Managing Director Balvinder Kumar has asked officials to provide 80 to 90 acres, which have been identified near Mubarakpur and Bhukhwera villages in Tiloi segment of the constituency.
Similarly, land for the Institute of Hotel Management has been finalised in Bhetua block.
According to sources, the petroleum institute, which will prepare highly skilled experts, will get technological assistance from IIT-Kanpur and Oil Industries Development Board and financial help from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Oil India.
The IIIT-Tikarmafi has been functioning since 2005. Former Union minister Sanjay Singh and his wife Ameeta Singh, who is the Congress MLA from Amethi, said these institutes will help realise Gandhi's dream to develop the area as an educational hub.
Concerted efforts are on to develop Amethi, once the constituency of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, and it already boasts of an Institute of Information Technology.
D M Reddy, chairman of the board of trustees of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Society, has written a letter to Rae Bareli's district magistrate for setting up the petroleum institute, which is scheduled to start its academic session in 2008-09.
The Uttar Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation has been asked to provide land for the institute and its Managing Director Balvinder Kumar has asked officials to provide 80 to 90 acres, which have been identified near Mubarakpur and Bhukhwera villages in Tiloi segment of the constituency.
Similarly, land for the Institute of Hotel Management has been finalised in Bhetua block.
According to sources, the petroleum institute, which will prepare highly skilled experts, will get technological assistance from IIT-Kanpur and Oil Industries Development Board and financial help from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Oil India.
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The IIIT-Tikarmafi has been functioning since 2005. Former Union minister Sanjay Singh and his wife Ameeta Singh, who is the Congress MLA from Amethi, said these institutes will help realise Gandhi's dream to develop the area as an educational hub.
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