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India builds schools, watches monuments crumble

In an address to the nation today (India’s 61st birthday), Indian PM Manmohan Singh announced that education would be given something of a boost to improve access to education and health. Two new architecture schools are planned, and… lordy… “6,000 new high-quality model schools, 373 new colleges, 30 new universities, eight new IITs, seven new IIMs, 20 new IIITs, five new Indian Institutes of Science, 10 new NITs and 1,000 new polytechnic institutes.” In 2007 there were about 100 institutions in India offering architecture courses, up from 40 in 1988 and just one in 1948.

To learn more about architectural education in India, you should probably have a look at architexturez.net , a mammoth site with many opinionated essays and abstracts.

Also today… the Financial Express reports that the, “Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach ) has prepared a list of nearly 70,000 monuments in the country of which about 60,000 are not looked after by any government or private agency.” Intach chairman S K Mishra said, “many of these 60,000 monuments need immediate attention. Otherwise, they will be ruined.”

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