PLAN TO SET UP
AN INDIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY
In order to make
appropriate changes in the institutional framework for imparting
maritime training, including the feasibility and desirability
of bringing the training institutes under a University type of
structure, the government of India, in October 1991, set up a
Committee on Maritime Education and Training (COMET). The Committee
in its report submitted in May 1992 recommended establishment
of an autonomous body as a society registered under the Societies
Registration Act, 1860 to be designated as Indian Maritime University
to manage, control, supervise, direct and monitor the various
Government run maritime training institutes. It was also further
recommended that as soon as practicable thereafter, the University
be accorded statutory status under an Act of Parliament. Accordingly,
the Indian Institute of Maritime Studies (IIMS), Mumbai has been
registered as a Society under Societies Registration Act, 1860
on 6th June, 2002. the IIMS is a forerunner to its
ultimate conversion into a University.
The four government
maritime training institutions namely, the Lal Bahadur Shastri
College of Advanced Maritime Studies and Research, Mumbai, Training
Ship `Chanakya’, New Mumbai and Maritime Engineering and Research
Institutes located at Kolkata with its branch at Mumbai, which
were under the control of the Director General of Shipping of
the Ministry of Shipping, have been placed within the domain of
I.I.M.S.
The present system
for regulating the private training institutes by Directorate
General of Shipping will continue. However, the private institutes
may come within the purview of Indian Maritime University, when
it is established.
The above information
was given by Shri Su. Thirunavukkarasar, Minister of State for
Shipping in written reply to a question by Shri R.P. Goenka, in
Rajya Sabha today.
