Keeping track of progress on Vedanta University (proposed near Puri, Orissa, India)

London based NRI industrialist Anil Agarwal has created a Vedanta Foundation of $1 billion for setting up of an international university in India. Recently he signed an MOU with the Government of Orissa for setting up of this university about 6 kms from Puri on the Puri-Konark highway. This blog will watch out for developements on this project, point to documents on this project, and discuss them.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Forbes in its profile of Anil Agarwal mentions Vedanta University

The World's Billionaires
#230 Anil Agarwal
03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET

Courtesy Vedanta Resources

Age: 53

Fortune: inherited and growing

Source: mining, metals

Net Worth: $3.8 bil

Country Of Citizenship: India

Residence: London , United Kingdom, Europe & Russia

Industry: Mining/Lumber

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education:

Chairs $3.7 billion (sales) London-listed metals and mining giant Vedanta Resources; brother Navin is No. 2. Main assets in India, Australia and Zambia. Announced $3.1 billion expansion of capacities. Plans to build Vedanta University, India's answer to Stanford, in eastern India; has pledged $1 billion.

# posted by chitta @ 10:22 AM

Links

• * Vedanta University home page
• * Vedanta University ad for a CAO
• * Vedanta University vision (3 min 45 sec presentation)
• * Vedanta University presentation (zip,pdf)
• * Vedanta University presentation (pdf,1MB,local copy)
• * Vedanta's press release (July 19' 2006)
• * Vedanta University in Wikipedia
• * OMC press release (Oct 19' 2004)
• * Arguments presented to council of ministers (Nov 29' 2004)
• * Ayers Saint Gross (the architects designing Vedanta University campus)
• * Job openings at Vedanta University: yahoo jobsearch

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