| Agami Orissa threatens agitation against shifting of IIT |
Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar |
Agami Orissa has threatened to launch a mass agitation against the conspiracy to shift the proposed Indian Institute of Technology from the State by the Centre.
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In a release the organisation said on October 2006, the Minister of State of Human Resource Development had announced in Patna that two IITs will be set up in Bihar and Orissa, which had been welcomed by the people of the State. But two days back the statement of HRD Minister Arjun Singh has depressed the people.
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The decision to shift the proposed IIT to Andhra Pradesh has proved the anti- Orissa attitude of the Central Government. Earlier, in 2004, Agami Orissa had launched an agitation against the Central Government decision to shift the proposed National Institute of Science to Kolkata with the help of students, teachers and intellectuals of the State. After which the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for the NIS, here in August 2006.
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| The organisation has urged the people of the State, students, intellectuals and political activists to build up a mass agitation against the Centre's decision. |
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