[1]The State’s global connect initiative, Emerging Kerala 2012, got off to a big-bang start here on Wednesday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s word on the State's long-pending demand for an IIT and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s sops in the form of attendance and grace marks for student innovators.
The State Government would soon have a Student Entrepreneurship Policy under which a student working to create knowledge, innovation, wealth and jobs through government-recognized incubators would be given 20 per cent attendance and four per cent grace marks in his or her academic course. This, Chandy said, would give students time to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation and ‘unleash the intellectual power of the youngsters towards entrepreneurship’.
The Cabinet later in the day met Dr Singh and presented a development agenda and sought among other things an IIT for the state, a go-ahead for the low-cost Air Kerala, support for widening the national highways, classical status for Malayalam and an Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology at CUSAT. Dr Singh is learnt to have given an in-principle nod for them.
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