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| Thirty-six Goan students make it to Goa NIT Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:46 AM PDT Thirty-six Goan studentsdents made it to the Goa National Institute of Technology (NIT) in the first year of the technology institute’s opening. Fifty per cent of Goa NIT’s 90 seats are reserved for students from Goa, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshwadweep.Of these, 36 Goan students and nine from Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshwadweep have secured admissions at the institute. A large number of students from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi are other states from where students have sought admissions at the Goa NIT. Students from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh and Bihar are also among those that have made it to the Goa NIT. Dr V N Shet, professor for electrical and electronic engineering at the Goa College of Engineering who is overseeing admissions at NIT, informed that the online process for admissions to the Goa NIT started on June 26. Class X and XII certificates and caste certificates of the students are being verified. Accordingly, students are given provisional admissions at NIT and seats are being confirmed over the next four rounds of admissions to NIT as per their streams of preference etc. Dr Shet said that the last round of admissions are expected to end by August 2 and classes for NIT are set to begin from July 26. "From July 20, an orientation course will be carried out for the students on the activities planned for the academic year. The actual classes for the year will begin on July 26," Dr Shet said. The help centre for the admission process opened at Farmagudi at the Goa Engineering College will remain open on Sundays as well. After the first round of admissions is over on July 2, seats will be opened for admission to those on the waiting list, Dr Shet informed. Classes will begin after the third round of admissions is over which begins on July 12. NIT Goa will be temporarily based at the Goa Engineering College campus and computer science, electronics and communications and electronic and electrical engineering are the three streams that will be offered at NIT in the first year. Students at NIT are admitted based on their rank at the All India Engineering Entrance Examination. The functioning of the Goa NIT will be overseen by the director of NIT Surathkal, Sandeep Sancheti, for now and the process of appointing faculty members for the Goa NIT is on at the moment. Sancheti is expected to come down to Goa as part of the orientation programme for the students admitted to the Goa NIT. Courtesy:TOI |
| Law will take its course in Pacheco case, says Goa minister Alemao Posted: 27 Jun 2010 01:39 AM PDT Pacheco resigned as tourism minister earlier this month following his alleged involvement in the suicide of a married woman Nadia Torrado. A senior minister from the western state of Goa has said that the law will take its course in the Mickky Pacheco case and that the former tourism minister will have to face the people when the time is right.
“No one is above the law even if he is an elected minister. The machinery is going about with its task and the people will know the truth shortly,” Churchill Alemao, Minister for Public Works, Rural Development and Science and Technology told Gulf News. Pacheco resigned as tourism minister earlier this month following his alleged involvement in the suicide of a married woman Nadia Torrado. Responsibility
Alemao, who was in Dubai to attend a function, said: “Though he was the tourism minister, Mickky recently said that Goa is the rape capital of India,” Alemao said. “As a minister he should have first understood the responsibilities that accompany a posting.” Alemao, a key member in the cabinet of the state coalition government headed by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, said he believed in the functionality of the law. Access to records “In a way it is good that Mickky has gone underground. The law machinery is getting adequate time and access to all records pertaining to the case, following their raids,” Alemao said. “I cannot stop the law from taking its course. At no point will a civilised society allow people, whatever their status, to take the law into their hands. No one is above the law. The investigations are on and the details of the inquiry will follow. One day the truth will be known and the people can then decide for themselves,” he added. The minister said that the government will continue its drive to make Goa a prime tourism destination. “Goa is the best tourism destination and people are aware of this. Our government is committed to improving on various aspects so that we maintain our top standing,” Alemao said. Smear campaign: 'Tell me to my face’ Goan minister Churchill Alemao has dared his political opponents to come out in the open instead of running backstage campaigns to malign his name. “There is a person called Arvind Mesquita [in the UAE] who is trying his best to smear my name at the behest of former minister Luizinho Faleiro. I visit the UAE regularly and if this person [Mesquita] is straight and has the guts, he must step forward and tell me on my face,” Alemao told Gulf News. “I am not a politician by nature, but I was forced to be in this position because of the will of the people who have elected me. I believe in development of my state and if there is someone who does not believe in the principles I stand for, then he should be man enough to step forward and tell me so on my face instead of running a campaign,” he added. Courtesy: gulfnews |
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