According to news reports, some of the best known Ivy League universities – MIT, Yale, Harvard and Princeton have approached the MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource and Development) to collaborate in the proposed setting up of 14 Innovation Universities across India as part of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12). (MIT apparently is not a part of the Ivy League according to Wikipedia)
This is a continuation of Mr.Kapil Sibal’s visit to these universities last October. Reportedly, Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (better known as Sam Pitroda) is drafting the details for the establishment of these universities.
Let’s hope these universities help in streamlining and institutionalising innovation…
Lets hope that the costs of studying in the IVY Leagues on the Indian soil won’t be as much or else it would certainly lend a BIG hole in the pockets of the Indian students desirous to earn a PHOREN degree in India.
Hope this dream come true at the earliest.
This would lessen brain drain from India and also save the poor students in Australia and UK from being mercilessly stabbed.
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