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State science and technology director Arun Kumar (left) and Techno India Group director Mohit Chattopadhyay exchange files as deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto looks on during the signing of the MoA in Ranchi on Friday. (Hardeep Singh)
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Ranchi, Oct. 19: The state government today signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with Techno India for running two technical institutes in Ramgarh and Silli, with deputy chief minister Mahto Sudesh Mahto promising to ink a pact next month to open engineering colleges in Chaibasa and Dumka.
The science and technology department signed the MoA with the Calcutta-based company for managing an engineering college in Ramgarh and polytechnic at Silli on public-private partnership mode.
The two institutes will open doors to students from the next academic session, with an intake of 600 each annually.
“It is a historic occasion for us. At present, there are barely 5,000 students in various engineering colleges and another 4,500 in polytechnics across Jharkhand. Our meritorious students are compelled to go to other states in search of quality technical education and after graduation many are also contributing to economic growth of several developed nations,” commented Mahto.
He added the government was aiming to set up an engineering college in each district and a polytechnic in every sub-division. Within this financial year the launch of 20 polytechnics is in the pipeline.
“We want to develop such centres of academic excellence, which even attract children from well-to-do families in other states,” said Mahto, who also heads the science and technology department.
According to MoA with Techno India, the company will be handed over the buildings and other infrastructure facilities available on the premises of the institutes in Ramgarh and Silli for 30 years.
Techno India Group chairman Gautam Roy Chowdhury said there were over 55,000 students in various institutions run by the firm. Over 10,000 of the students are from Jharkhand, a state that also supplied a sizeable number of teachers and staff, he added.
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