Orissa to get second flying training institute in Berhampur

Berhampur, May 30 (PTI): Plans are afoot to develop Orissa's second flying training institute at Rangeilunda airstrip (in Berhampur University campus) near Berhampur city.

The ministry of Civil Aviation wants to use Rangeilunda airstrip as a flying training institute. Binodini Devi, a senior captain from the ministry, visited the airstrip recently and discussed the project with engineers of the works department in Berhampur, Ganjam district collector V K Pandian said. It is noteworthy, Orissa's first flying training institute is in Bhubaneswar.

A senior pilot of the ministry also visited the Rangeilunda airstrip site last week and asked the works engineer to develop it as a Visual Flight Rule (VFR) airstrip and to provide at least two rooms to conduct the pilot training institute. "We have agreed to provide all necessary infrastructure facilities to the ministry to use Rangeilunda airstrip as a flying training institute," K Pandian said.

Source: PTI

NIST ranked best professional College in Orissa along with CET by BPUT students

All Odisha BPUT Students Association (AOBSA), the students body of Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha has launched the 1st edition of “Odisha Professional College Ranking -2010” a 50 days programme which has started from 10th May 2010. The college ranking has covered nearly 180 professional colleges providing bachelor and master degree in Engineering, Pharmacy, Architecture, Hotel Management etc. This ranking was open to all constituents and affiliated colleges of the state run technical university i.e BPUT. Nearly 90000 students from 180 colleges have rated their college online on the Students Portal i.e. www.bputstudents.com

At the end of the ranking period the result was announced, in which with 98% score NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (NIST), Berhampur and COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (CET), Bhubaneswar jointly stood at the top of Odisha Professional College Ranking -2010

It’s the first of its kind in India where students of various institutes have voted for their college on parameters like Industry Exposure, Learning and faculty, Infrastructure, Placement & Extra-Curricular.

Since the formation of a technical university in Odisha no such initiative was taken by the university authority to rank the colleges .Even after various demands from the students along with the colleges it take nearly 8 years to start the ranking of colleges on the basis of students feedback.

Undoubtedly, Odisha Professional College Ranking will surely unveil a new dimension to nearly 73,587 students those who have appeared the Orissa Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) 2010.Parents of the OJEE aspirants will also get an opportunity to judge the best college for his ward by following this ranking procedure.

Top 20 professional institutes in Odisha

1. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR (98)

2. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, BERHAMPUR (98)

3. IIIT, BHUBANESWAR (96)

4. INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH, BHUBANESWAR (95.4)

5. SILICON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR (92.87)

6. CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PLASTICS ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (92)

7. ORISSA SCHOOL OF MINING ENGINEERING, KEONJHAR (86)

8. C. V. RAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BHUBANESWAR (84)

9. INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SARANG (79.8)

10. GANDHI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, GUNUPUR (79)

11. TRIDENT ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR (78)

12. EASTERN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, PHULNAKHRA (77)

13.TEMPLECITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY& ENGINEERING, BHUBANESWAR(75.8)

14. ORISSA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHUBANESWAR (75)

15. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BHUBANESWAR (74)

16. KOUSTUV INSTITUTE OF SELF DOMAIN, BHUBANESWAR (73.5)

17. GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT, BHUBANESWAR (72)

18. PARALA MAHARAJA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, (Govt.) BERHAMPUR (72)

19. KRUPAJALA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, BHUBANESWAR (71.2)

20. DHANESWAR RATH INSTITUTE OF ENGG. AND MGMT. STUDIES, CUTTACK

Source:www.bputstudents.com

Berhampur Municipal Corporation takes up beautification of the city

Paintings on tribal life of Koraput depicted on city walls

The city walls have started to come alive with paintings depicting tribal life of undivided Koraput district. It is part of the effort of the Berhampur Municipal Corporation to beautify the city. Most of the walls of public buildings by the side of major roads in the city have got decorated by paintings. These walls earlier bore mutilated look due to posters and graffiti.

But the city dwellers are wondering how come tribal paintings and pictures depicting tribal life got predominance in these paintings. It may be noted that Silk city Berhampur, the largest trading centre of south Orissa and an emerging business destination in eastern India also known as the gateway to South Orissa and the undivided Koraput district. So, no one has complained about it.

But the reason behind this predominant depiction of tribal life on city walls is that some of the painters are from Koraput. Five painters from Koraput have been utilised by the local municipal corporation are involved in this painting work. These painters are also quite happy as it has provided them necessary income source. Senior painter in the team, Manoj Kumar Patnaik said such beautification efforts by urban bodies can provide income source to painters. He added that in recent years, advent of modern printing and large printed flex boards had snatched away earnings of painters. He said they are being paid Rs. 22 per square feet of painting. Till now they have painted 22,000 square feet of wall around the city.

Apart from tribal life and traditional tribal paintings, these young painters have also depicted issues related to common man like global warming, depletion of forest cover, wastage of water resources etc. But most of the time the characters depicted in these paintings tend to be tribals. These painters have also drawn up some paintings related to problems of the city like drinkig water crisis and rise in fire accidents during summer months. Source: The Hindu