More technical education seats in Hariyana
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced to double the technical education seats in the state and open an education city “modelled on Oxford”. “From 33,000 seats in technical institutes three years ago, Haryana today boasts of 52,000 seats. Our aim is to take this number to 100,000 by 2010. I am determined to establish the state as India’s show-window for technical education,” Hooda told reporters.
He said an additional 50 private engineering colleges will be added this year to the current 62 engineering colleges in the state.
With the largest of these additions likely to take place in districts like Faridabad, Sonepat, Panipat and Gurgaon, the state government’s expansion of technical education infrastructure is expected to have a significant bearing on students in the national capital region, he said.
“The Haryana government has increased budgetary allocation to the education department from Rs.16 billion in 2004-05 to Rs.32 billion this year,” he added.
He said the state would open an education city named Rajiv Gandhi Education City in September this year at Kundli, around 25 km from Delhi.
The state government is planning to set up India’s first Defence University in the state.