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Karnataka-Bangalore
By Our Special Correspondent
party MP and former Railway Minister, C.K.Jaffer Sharief. The institution, Khader Nawaz Sharief (KNS) Institute of Technology, which has been opened at Thirumenahalli in Yelahanka Hobli, near here, has been named after Mr. Sharief's second son, who passed away in 1999. The Government has permitted Mr. Sharief to open the college in his Bangalore North parliamentary constituency. In fact, the formal inauguration of the college had been delayed. It has been functioning for the past one year, and the well-known nuclear scientist, Raja Ramanna, is the Chairman of the governing council of the college. However Ms. Gandhi will be fulfilling other engagements too on that day. She will address a Bharat Seva Dal camp at Yelahanka before proceeding to the engineering college. In the afternoon she will deliver a lecture at the Indian Institute of Science. Congress sources said that the AICC had included the other engagements in her itinerary to avoid lending the impression that its chief was visiting the City only to attend a function organised by Mr. Sharief. The former Railway Minister has emerged as an outspoken person, if not a critic of the S.M.Krishna Ministry. It has not gone unnoticed that Mr. Sharief failed to join the padayatra undertaken by the Chief Minister from here to Mandya. Both leaders and ordinary members vied with one another to take part in the padayatra and catch the eye of the Chief Minister. The ministers did not heed Mr. Krishna's advice to attend to their work and walked the distance. Mr. Sharief has used every possible opportunity to fault the administration. Besides the presence of Ms. Gandhi, which will be of interest to the Congress rank and file, the inauguration of the college will bring together the leaders of various religions. Mr. Sharief has invited Jayendra Saraswathi of the Kanchi Kamakoti Math and the junior swami, Shankara Vijayendra, Balagangadharanatha Swami of the Adichunchanagiri Math, Shivakumara Swami of Siddaganga Math, Shivamurthy Murugarajendra Swami of the Brihan Math (Chitradurga), Maulana Abdul Karim Parik Saheb of the Muslim Personal Law Board, and Rev. Father Roni Prabhu, Provincial Superior of Jesuit Priests of Karnataka. The Governor, T.N.Chaturvedi, and Mr. Krishna, will also attend the function, besides R.Natarajan, Chairman of the All-India Technical Education Council, and the Minister for Higher Education, G.Parameshwar. Speaking to presspersons today, Mr. Sharief sought to remove the impression that opening of private engineering colleges was a profitable proposition. They had ceased to be commercial ventures. Only private medical colleges continued to be profitable. Mr. Sharief urged the AICTE and the State Government to make engineering education less expensive. The emphasis should be on quality education. According to the KPCC, Ms. Gandhi, who will arrive here from Delhi at 9.20 a.m. will spend 45 minutes at the Raj Bhavan before proceeding to the Bharat Seva Dal camp. She will inaugurate the KNS Institute of Technology at 11.30 a.m. She will spare time to meet party leaders and others at the Raj Bhavan in the afternoon. She will speak at the IISc. at 4 p.m. and later leave for Delhi.
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