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New Indian Express
12-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
NIT-Rourkela kick-starts infrastructure works for creation of capital assets
ROURKELA: In view of its growing campus strength, the National Institute of Technology-Rourkela (NIT-R) has initiated massive construction activities towards building infrastructure with the help of easy educational loan and corporate donations. In 2023, the institute had signed an MoU with the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) and secured loan support of Rs 165.81 crore under window-1 category. Subsequently, another MoU was signed towards securing Rs 33.16 crore loan from HEFA. HEFA is a joint venture company of Canara Bank and Ministry of Education (MoE) to provide financial assistance for creation of capital assets including educational infrastructure and R&D facilities in India's premier educational institutions. Sources said on basis of its annual earning capacity and loan repayment capability, NIT-R came under the window-1 category in which it has to only return the principal loan amount to HEFA while the MoE would pay the interest. NIT-R registrar Prof Rohan Dhiman said after obtaining necessary forest and urban local body clearances, work is going on in full swing on multiple infrastructure projects from March. Currently, a hostel block with a capacity to accommodate 1,000 boys, a 500-seat girls hostel and 72 faculty residences are being constructed. Similarly, work on a five million litre per day sewerage treatment plant would start soon.
Time of India
11-05-2025
- Time of India
Man held for stealing NIT-R student's bike
1 2 3 Rourkela: Police arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly stealing the motorcycle of a NIT Rourkela student. Police recovered the stolen bike from Kumar Behera (28), a PhD student of NIT-R, had registered a complaint on April 26 alleging that his bike, which he parked near the Jagda gate of the institute on April 25 around 11 am, was found missing at 7 pm. Sector-3 police had registered a theft case and conducted investigation. During investigation, two motorcycles were recovered from the rented house of Rajesh Sindhriya alias Bangri, a local resident. On interrogation, the accused confessed to having stolen both bikes. Police seized both the motorcycles. Police said Rajesh was earlier involved in a number of cases registered in Sector-3 police station and one in Sector-19 police station. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Mother's Day wishes , messages , and quotes !
New Indian Express
26-04-2025
- Science
- New Indian Express
NIT-R ranks among THE's top 200 Asian institutes
ROURKELA: National Institute of Technology - Rourkela (NIT-R) has featured among 200 best Asian institutions listed in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2025. While the NIT-R secured 191st ranking in Asia, it is ranked at 12th among the top Indian universities and is the only NIT of the country. NIT-R sources informed that THE ranked 853 universities from 35 countries and territories, assessing their research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international outlook for the Asia ranking exercise. The assessment methodology included 18 performance indicators and relied on by students, academics, policymakers and industry leaders worldwide. NIT-R director Prof K Umamaheshwar Rao said the institute's innovative efforts acknowledged on a global scale is greatly encouraging. 'The achievement is even more meaningful as we were recently selected as the only NIT to be a Hub Institute under the ANRF's PAIR programme. The institute has established a strong foundation for collaborative research and knowledge exchange encouraging innovation and accelerating academic development and we look forward to continued progress and future accomplishments,' he added.
