Education
IIM – Lucknow gets a full-time director
Lucknow: Ajit Prasad has been appointed full-time director of Indian Institute of Management – Lucknow on Monday.
The union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry made the appointment.
Prasad is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College of the University of Delhi, the Delhi School of Economics, International Management Institute and London School of Economics, an IIM spokesman said.
The director’s post at the premier institution was lying vacant for a year. Prasad was associated with S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai as professor of strategy.
His past industry experience includes working with the State Bank of India, the Planning Commission, and Steel Authority of India, the IIM spokesman said.
Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.