Start new IIT, IIM in TN, Karunanidhi writes to PM

Start new IIT, IIM in TN, Karunanidhi writes to PM:

• Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madurai, an Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) at Trichy and an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Coimbatore. 

• Welcoming the Prime Minister’s announcement in his Independence Day address that more IITs, IIMs and IISERs would be opened across the country, the CM said in his letter that the measure proposed by the PM was timely and highly appropriate.

• Stating that Tamil Nadu had always been giving great emphasis to education, particularly to technical and professional education, Karunanidhi said the availability of such skilled manpower had enabled the state to attract huge investments in industry and business. To sustain and give further fillip to these efforts, the state needed a new IIT, IIM and IISER, he added.
  

• The CM also welcomed the PM’s announcements on setting up colleges in districts with low enrolment, Government support for new high quality schools in every block and setting up of appropriate number of industrial training institutes, polytechnics, vocational schools and skill development centres to ensure vocational training for a larger number of youth in the state.