New Initiatives
Jawaharlal Nehru Chandigarh Education City
Chandigarh Administration plans to set up a multi
institutional Education City at Sarangpur institutional area,
Chandigarh, for which 16 sites, measuring 6 acres each on long
lease have been
set aside. A total area of 130 acres has been made available for
the Education City, by the Administration. Chandigarh
Administration would also provide common facilities through the
Chandigarh Housing Board.
VISION
The vision of the Administration in setting up the Education
City is to make available human resources for the growing
economy, for equipping the youth of Chandigarh and the region
with the skills required in today’s context. The areas which are
being focused upon in the Education City are those that are rare
in terms of available talent but which are urgently required in
today’s context. Hewitt Associates was appointed by the
Administration to advise it about the types of courses which
should be offered in today’s scenario and keeping in view the
future projections as per the needs of the region.
The Education City thus would be a project which is both
visionary and comprehensive in its scope and would fulfill the
requirement of training and educating young people in high end
areas which are required in today’s context and also keeping in
mind future projections.
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED
Chandigarh Administration plans to provide assistance and
low-cost, high class, education to those who cannot afford to
pay normal fees. The Education City would be based on the model
that the economically weaker sections and the disadvantaged
would be provided with world class education at affordable
rates. Equity will be translated/realized in the form of
scholarships for committed, intelligent and poor youth.
TYPES OF INSTITUTES
Chandigarh Administration envisages that the Education City
would be a world class project with institutions of excellence
in all areas of education, as per our future requirements. The
Administration has also kept in view the fact that in today’s
fast changing world it is necessary that institutions should be
flexible in their approach and should tie up with companies
which are the end users of the talent that they are producing.
Therefore it has been decided that the institutions should be
such that high end courses like Hospital Administration,
Management courses in various streams, Computer Science and
other high end Engineering branches, Bio-technology, Multimedia
and Pharmaceuticals, Tourism and Hospitality, Industrial Design,
Media and Mass Communication should be some of the areas which
may be focused upon at the Education City.
An Expert Committee advised the Administration on the best
organizations which would fulfill the purpose laid down for the
Education City. The expert include Dr. K.K. Talwar, Director PGI,
Chandigarh, Dr. B.N. Goswami, Prof. Emeritus, Panjab University,
Prof. K.N. Pathak, Ex Vice-Chancellor, P.U. Sh. Partap K.
Aggarwal, Chairman, CII, Chandigarh, Sh. Chandra Mohan,
Chairman, PEC Governing Body.
WORLD CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE
Chandigarh Administration has envisaged that infrastructure
at the Education City would be world class and common facilities
consisting of a gymnasium, a sports complex, an auditorium,
serviced apartments and a commercial establishment would be set
up in 20 acres, within the Education City, by Chandigarh Housing
Board through a private developer. Individual campuses would
have hostel facilities for students and educational
infrastructure whereas the common facilities would provide high
class facilities to all the institutes within the Education
City. Tentative List of Courses for the Education City
(Phase III)
- Integrated design school, which encompasses product
design, fashion design, interior design.
- A school of fine Arts, theatre, film making and cultural
studies.
- Courses on International Relations (both at
undergraduate and post graduate level).
- Courses on Managerial and Business Economics (both at
undergraduate and post graduate level).
- Courses on Law: corporate law, international
arbitration, human rights, integrated law course.
- Courses on advertising and public relations (both at
undergraduate and post graduate level).
- Courses on Actuarial Sciences (both at undergraduates
and post graduate level).
- Courses on Environmental Studies (both at undergraduate
and post graduate level).
- School of foreign languages (both at undergraduate and
post graduate level).
- School of Musicology.
- School of developmental studies, which includes study of
social development, formation and managements of
co-operatives etc.
- School of Sports Management.
- Creative Art Management.
- Event management.
- Property Services Management.
List of Courses for the Education City Phase
I
- Degree and diploma courses in Animation/Multimedia.
- Pharmaceutical
- Biotechnology and Genomics
- Hospital & healthcare Management Studies.
- Management and related areas
- Computer Science, Automobile Engineering, Telecom
Engineering and other innovative but related fields of
engineering.
Phase II
- Industrial Design and Healthcare Engineering.
- Media, Mass Communication & Journalism.
- Tourism and Hospitality courses.
For more details contact :
Project Director -cum- Director Tourism
Chandigarh Administration
Additional Deluxe Building,
Sector 9 - D, Chandigarh - 160 009
Tel : +91 172 2740056
Fax: +91 172 2748354
Email : dtour-chd AT nic.in |