The Stanford Declaration
June 30, 2010
Timely efforts could make
Bhubaneswar the Knowledge
Hub of the country:
the time is NOW
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
(helped by Nihar Nayak, Stanford
University)
Preparing for and Getting the
Innovation University in Bhubaneswar
Current Status
• Two concept papers are made available in MHRD
web page
• Mr. Kapil Sibal has gone around various countries
(US, Singapore, UK, Australia) asking for their help
in setting up these universities.
• No one-on-one mentoring help has been offered.
• Yale has offered to provide training to the
administrators (VC, Deans etc.) of these
universities
• The innovation university bill may come up in the
upcoming parliament – draft not available yet
How an innovation university may
come to Odisha quickly
• Create a small campus (say the size of XIMB – 20 acres and with all
amenities for student size of 1000 and faculty size of 150)
immediately.
– This can house the Innovation university for first 3-4 years; i.e. until its
own campus comes up
– After that it can be used as an initial plans for new
institutes/universities that will be established in Odisha
• One every 3-4 years.
• Some Odisha connected academics may propose a plan to MHRD
– Nihar and I have some plan in mind for which we may be able to rope
in Stanford and Arizona State as mentors.
– A key question for me is:
• Will the Innovation University have resources to offer faculty salary that will
attract non-Indian Ph.Ds from western countries (say USA)
• If not, then I don’t see how it will become a top university quickly (in 10-15
years)
• Model example to follow: Hong Kong Univ of Sc and Tech.
Making Bhubaneswar THE Knowledge Hub
of India (by 2015-20), Asia (2020) and the
World (2030).
TIMELY EFFORT NEEDED.
THE TIME IS NOW.
What to pursue (besides Vedanta Univ.) -1
Knowledge
Disciplines
Top 20 Now/soon*
Top 40
Now
Others
What to pursue
Technology/
Engineering
IIT Bhubaneswar*
NIT
Rourkela
CIPET, VSSUT, IIIT
Bhubaneswar
Get BITS-Pilani Campus,
IIEST, IIIT BAM
Science
NISER, BBS*
Management
XIM, BBS
BIMTECH, IMI
IIM, ISB, Birla
Public Health
IIPH, BBS*
AIPH-Ravenshaw
Nebraska USA
Law
NLUO, CTC*
Medicine
AIIIMS-like, BBS*
Fashion
Technology
NIFT, BBS*
Education
RIE, BBS
RIE  NIE
Social Work
NISWASS, BBS
Tata (TISS), Xavier U
Journalism
IIMC, Dhenkanal
Upgrade IIMC (more
land)
Tourism & Travel
Management
IITTM, BBS
Upgrade IITTM (more
land)
Hotel Mgmt
IHM Bhubaneswar
Xavier U, Ravenshaw U
Xavier U
What to pursue (besides Vedanta) -2
Disciplines
Top 20
Top 40
Others
Comments
Arts
Ravenshaw
Xavier U
Commerce
Ravenshaw
Xavier U
Design
NID, IIT BBS
Architecture
SPA, IIT BBS
Pharmacy
NIPER
Sanskrit
Sri Jagannath U
Upgrade Rashtriya Sanskrit
Sansthaan
Languages
ERLC of CIIL
Upgrade (more land)
Statistics
Maritime
ISI branch
Paradeep
Branch of Maritime U
Music
SPICMACAY Univ
Construction
Branch of Constr. Academy
Paramedical Sc
Nationa/Regional IPS
Drama
NSD
Fine Arts
Sports & PE
A sports institute
VEDANTA U AND XAVIER U WILL
PLAY VERY IMPORTANT ROLE
Ranking of Arts Colleges: None in Odisha
Ranking of Commerce Colleges: None in Odisha
Ranking of Science Colleges: NISER will come in top 10
Ranking of Business Schools: XIMB at 13
Ranking of Engineering Colleges: NIT RKL at 21
Research Ranking of Technical Institutes: NIT RKL at 20
Top 25 Research Universities: None in Odisha
Why Xavier University will play an
important role?
• Only institute from Odisha ranked in top 15 (some times top 10) in
any field in all rankings.
• Its sister institution XLRI is ranked in top 5.
• Arts: 4 out of top 5 are Jesuit Institutions (1. Loyola Chennai; 3.
St Stephens Delhi; 4. St Xaviers Mumbai; 5. St Xaviers Kolkata)
• Commerce: 3 out of top 5 are Christian Institutions (2. St. Xaviers
Kolkata; 3. Loyola Chennai; 5. Christ College Bangalore)
• Science: Top 4 are Jesuit Institutions (1. Loyola Chennai; 2. St
Stephens Delhi; 3. St Xaviers Kolkata; 4. St Xaviers Mumbai)
• Xavier University can leap over all these in Arts & Commerce.
• Other areas that Xavier can be pushed: Law, Social Sciences/Social
Work, some day may be even Medical (remember CMC Vellore)
• Xavier has an international brand name (VERY important)
• There are 30+ Jesuit Universities in the US and many more in other
countries in the world
Odisha government partnering with
Xavier University
• Make sure they start programs in Arts and
Commerce
• Push them to start programs in Law, Social
Sciences/Social Work, Government and possibly
Medicine (remember CMC Vellore)
• Help build a Xavier International Center
– Visit and Invite Jesuit Universities and Institutions
across the world to set up their academic units in that
center
– Similar to multi-university campuses in China and the
Middle East
Comparing Indian and Foreign
Universities/Institutions
• Annual expenditure
– Arizona State University
1.785 Billion USD.
8211 crores INR at One USD=46 INR rate.
3000 crores INR using the purchasing power parity (PPP)
– Harvard with 20,000 students
3.756 Billion USD
6385 crores INR using PPP.
– Stanford with 18,500 students
3.65 Billion USD
– IISc Bangalore in 2010-11 budget: 221 Crores INR
– Total 2010-2011 budget for the seven older IITs is 1600 crores.
– Vedanta University (5000 crore INR from Anil A; 15000 crore total)
• Could afford an annual budget 1000-1500 crores
Initiation cost for Indian and Foreign
Universities/Institutions
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A new IIT: 760 crores
A new IIM: 210 crores
A central university: 300 crores
A central university with medical school: 720
crores
• An IISER: 500 crores; NISER:
• An AIIMS: 850 crores.
• Vedanta University: 5,000 crores from AA and
15,000 crores total
– IIT + IIM + CU + CU-MS + IISER + AIIMS = 3340 crores
Salary comparison of Indian and
Foreign Universities/Institutions
• IIM-Ahmedabad Assistant Professor: 5.5 lakhs/year
• Indian School of Business (ISB) Assistant Professor: 20
lakhs/year.
• Harvard University Assistant Professor: $130K/year =
60 lakhs INR/year == 22 lakhs INR in terms of
purchasing power parity (PPP)
• ISB pays close to Harvard if we take PPP into account.
• So ISB pays much higher than IIMs, close to what
Harvard pays in PPP terms. How is it ranked?
Comparing Foreign & Indian
Universities (Institutes)
• The budgets and salary for Indian Institutes (IITs, IIMs
etc.) is normally much smaller than foreign ones, even
when one takes into account PPP
• But when they are close (as in case of ISB) even taking
into account PPP, the Indian institutes do pretty good
globally.
• Vedanta’s budget is more in line with budgets of
foreign universities and institutes
• Vedanta can pay salary at the level of ISB
• The innovation universities need to gather funds to be
able to pay at the level of ISB; Otherwise they would be
hard pressed to achieve their goal of being world class.
Vedanta University
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Vedanta University School of Engineering
Vedanta University School of Medicine
Vedanta University School of Business
Vedanta University College of Science
Vedanta University College of Liberal Arts
Vedanta University College of Design
Vedanta University College of Architecture
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What should Odisha urgently do vis-àvis Vedanta University
• Unfreeze the current deadlock
– CM must meet PM and HR Minister and talk about the
importance of Vedanta University and solicit his help
– CM (and PM) must ask Anil Agarwal to
• Establish 2-3 graduate schools temporarily in Bhubaneswar
immediately so as to address people’s skepticism. Some possible
areas of need
– Mathematics (India produces too few PhDs; A lot of demand; easy to hire
top PhDs from abroad; PhDs from Stanford/Berkeley join 4 year colleges
and sometimes 2 yr community colleges)
– Computing (India produces too few PhDs; A lot of demand; Not clear
how easy it will be to recruit from abroad; will be a test case)
• Take some additional steps as outlined in the bill
– Hire a Pro-vice Chancellor or Chief Operating Officer etc.
Why urgently?
• Internal sources in Vedanta have conveyed
that they have now stopped focusing on the
university
• They will focus on their mining and industry
goals
• So unless we take the earlier mentioned steps
urgently, this once in a century opportunity for
Bhubaneswar/Puri and Odisha may be lost.
What next?
• To achieve the goal of: Making Bhubaneswar
THE Knowledge Hub of India (by 2015-20),
Asia (2020) and the World (2030).
• We need to think out of the box and be
extremely creative and proactive
• Like What?
Two big ideas
• Pursue SPICMACAY University
– SPICMACAY: Society for promotion of Indian
Culture, Music and …
– CM should approach SPICMACAY, offer them free
land and an initial start up of say 10-15 crores for
establishing a university with similar aims as
SPICMACY
– This has a high chance of becoming the top
Music/Culture University in India.
• Lord Jagannath World University
Lord Jagannath World University
• Why
– Brand Name: Jagannath and Odissi are most well known globally
– Like the Jesuit Universities; like the Venkateswara University (in Tirupati) the
best way to propagate Jagannath culture is through a university
– Lord Jagannath has a lot of assets (lands, etc.) all over India.
– A university will put the assets in good use
– Because of the association with Lord Jagannath huge funds can be raised for
the university
• How
– Hire someone globally known; say Lalit Mansingh and put him in charge to
raise 500-1000 crores for this university
– Goal would be to establish a university that would have all branches
(engineering, medicine, management, Culture, Liberal arts, music etc.)
– Initially at some location near Puri (say Satyavadi); later branches can be
established across Odisha and even outside Odisha.
– Create hype from Day 1 (similar to the hype created for Nalanda University in
Bihar); have well known people from all over the world in the executive board
of this university.
• The hype is needed to attract top faculty.
Other proactive steps
Pursuing Indian Billionaires
• BITS Piliani campus (currently they have campuses in Pilani,
Goal, Hyderabad, Dubai), perhaps near Bhubaneswar
– BITS Management School (Late Sir Birla had talked about his
goal to establish an IIM type school)
• BIT Mesra type institute in Jharsuguda (they also have a
BIT Patna) - from a different Birla family
• Reliance University (Mukesh and Nita Ambani; Approach
them and offer 2000 acres as opposed to 100-200 acres
that they can get in Mumbai/Delhi)
– Should Rabi Bastia be approached; Perhaps direct CM letter
would be best
• Ajim Premji University: He has established one in Bangalore
• Jindal University: He has one in Haryana
• Pursue with Tatas: After their Kalinganagar plant is
commissioned
From Mineral Resources to Human
Resources
• Mineral resources will be eventually gone
• Saudi Arabia realized it and has focused on
– Infrastructure
– Universities and higher education
• KAUST (King Abdullah Univ of Sc and Tech) - $8 Billion
• Branches of many foreign universities
• Odisha must link mineral use by companies
with HRD at all levels
Pursuing Industries (from mineral resources to
human resources): Private Ones
• Birla, Jindal, Tata, Mukesh Ambani already
mentioned.
• POSCO – an institute like POSTECH in South
Korea
– Postech is among the top 2 universities in South
Korea
Pursuing Industries (from mineral resources to
human resources): Public Sector ones
• NALCO: Medical, Engineering and
Management colleges
• NTPC: Medical, Engineering and Management
colleges
• SAIL: Medical, Engineering and Management
colleges
• MCL: Already promised medical college.
Should also establish Engineering and
Management colleges
Pursuing successful Indian Societies
• Amrita University (already being pursued)
• Pursue Sai Baba
• DAV Society
– DAV College Chandigarh and Hans Raj College Delhi are top DAV
colleges
– DAV Business school in Bhubaneswar offers BBA (their students get
top ranks) and has applied to AICTE to offer MBA.
– Get in touch with the DAV society and help them make a good college
and then grow into a university
• Loyola – They have a school; Encourage them to make a college
with the help of Loyola College Chennai
• St. Josephs - They have a school; Encourage them to make a college
with the help of St. Josephs College in Bangalore
• ISB Hyderabad – they are making a campus in Chandigarh
• IIM Kolkata – IIM Ahmedabad is making a campus in Hyderabad
Pursuing the Central Government
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TIFR east: Original one in Mumbai; Recently a branch in Hyderabad at the cost of
Rs 2500 crores (over 12-15 years) has been approved.
IIM
Upgrade VSSUT Burla to an IIEST
National Institute of Design
SPA: School of Planning & Architecture
National School of Drama
Rural engineering institute: Like SLIET (Punjab), ABA Gani Khan Choudhury IET
(West Bengal)
Upgrade one of the medical college to AIIMS level (besides the new AIIMs-like
institute in Bhubaneswar)
Regional/National Institute of Paramedical Sciences
ESI Medical College in Rourkela (in addition to one in Bhubaneswar)
Medical College as part of CUO Koraput
ECOR Medical College
NIPER (National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research)
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Upgrade Regional Institute of Education to National Institute of Education
Upgrade IIMC Dhenkanal
Upgrade IITTM Bhubaneswar
Upgrade ERLC in Bhubaneswar (part of CIIL Mysore)
Upgrade Rashtriya Sanskri t Sansthan campus in Puri
Upgrade BPNSI Puri
A Sports institute like NSI Patiala
CDAC Center
Branch of Indian Statistical Institute
Branch of Workers technological university
Branch of Maritime University
Branch of National Academy of Construction
National Library
National Archive
Attracting Foreign Universities to
Odisha
• Jesuit Universities Complex adjacent to Xavier University
– Specifically pursue Georgetown University
• University of Nebraska Medical School
– Already connected to Asian Institute of Public Health and
through them to Ravenshaw University
• Stanford/Arizona-State-University mentorship of the
Innovation University
• POSTECH South Korea
– Through POSCO pursue other Korean Universities to set up
campus
• Be in the lookout for opportunities
– Have facilities ready and available
– Have private/industrial partners ready
Additional State efforts:
beyond the HETF report
• Comprehensive Universities
– Utkal: Add CET and Capital Medical College to create a comprehensive
university
– Ravenshaw: Add SCB and an engineering college (upgrade BOSE to an
engineering college)
– Berhampur: Add MKCG and Parla Maharaj Engineering College
– Sambalpur: Add VSS Medical College
• Upgrading the research in the state universities
– Ask each department to compare itself with the top 10 in India and aim to be
in the top 20. (see the ranking based on publications in quality venues)
• Metropolitan University
– Bhubaneswar: Combine government colleges in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack area.
• Aim to be like Delhi University
– Rourkela (mentioned in HETF report)
Some state private universities
• NIST Berhampur (Among top 2 private colleges; caters to
backward south Orissa)
• GIET Gunupur (Among top 10 private colleges; largest
engineering college in Eastern India; caters to backward
Rayagada district)
• Silicon Bhubaneswar (Top private college of the state)
• CV Raman Bhubaneswar (if they make a medical college)
• Hi-Tech (Because they made medical college)
• KISS
• CEB/Koustuv (If they make medical college)
• Krupajal (if they make medical college)
• See “notes” below on how to decide on private universities.
Conclusion