The Employment and Technical Education and Training (E&TE&T) Department has formed a four-member committee to examine the eligibility criteria of the College of Engineering and Technology (CET) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT) for university status.
The committee, led by the Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) Vice Chancellor as the chairman, has the Director, Technical Education and Training (DTET) and Prof lN Panda, head of the department of Mechanical Engineering of CET as members while the CET chairman is the convener.
It would verify the eligibility criteria of the two institutes in fulfilling all the norms, required infrastructure, faculty and students’ strength and other existing facilities required for the grant of university status.
The Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) will bear the expenses of the committee.The committee would submit its report within three months.