MILLENNIUM CITY'S EDUCATION RECORD: STUCK IN THE DARK AGES

MILLENNIUM CITY'S EDUCATION RECORD: STUCK IN THE DARK AGES

Maharishi Dayanand University was set up in Rohtak, Kurukshetra University was set up in Kurukshetra; while Hisar got Guru Jambheshwar University.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) has been set up in Rohtak, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's hometown, but not Gurgaon which is an MNC hub.
3,000-acre Rajiv Gandhi Education City to come up in Kundli (Sonepat), not Gurgaon.
Haryana government plans to set up a Defense University at Binola village in Gurgaon Three degree colleges offering BA and MA in arts, commerce and medical subjects to come up in Gurgaon. Private Sector initiative: Gurgaon has instances of private sector initiative such as Management Development Institute (MDI).
Amity University is the latest entrant in Gurgaon, where ITM University already exists. Faridabad-based Manav Rachna University is awaiting clearance.
Other private institutions include Ansal Institute of Technology, Amity Business School, Guru Dronacharya, JK Business School, KIIT, GITM, Global and others.
The Haryana government hasn't set up a single higher education institute for courses such as management, university poly-technique. Corporate sector initiative: No private developers, except Ansals that set up AIT, have delivered in terms of corporate social responsibility and set up higher education institutions.
These include automobile giants like Maruti-Suzuki, Honda Motorcycles and Hero-Honda.
Gurgaon is the biggest automobile belt and home to India's biggest developers such as DLF, Unitech and others. DLF has set up a higher secondary Summer Field school only in DLF City.
IT & ITES firms worried: About 1.5 lakh people work in 250 IT and IT&ES firms here.
About 98 per cent of the people working here are from Delhi, Noida and other metros. Other facts: The official website http://highereducationharyana.
nic.in has been out of operation and under maintenance for a long time now.
The Central University in backward Narnaul is about 100 kms from Gurgaon. It does not have its own building and the land is still to be handed over to it.
No medical college has been set up in Gurgaon.
Healthcare companies demand permission to further ease land requirement norms even from 10 acres also.
Government has no immediate plans to set up a university or medical college here.


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