Decks cleared for Kangra varsity’s satellite campus
Functioning from rented building
*There has been considerable delay in the construction of the two split campuses of Central University at Dharamsala and Dehra.
*Announced by the UPA govt in 2007, Central University is still being run from rented accommodation.
Pratibha Chauhan
Tribune News Service
Shimla, February 19
Decks have finally been cleared for the construction of the satellite campus of Central University, Kangra, with the Union Ministry of Environment allowing the “land user” tag to be transferred from the state’s Department of Higher Education to the Central University, which is under the HRD Ministry.
Suneet Bhardwaj, Assistant Inspector General of Forest, in his communication to the Additional Chief Secretary (Forest) conveyed that the request of the state government for change in the name of the user of 81 hectares had been accepted.
Incidentally, Dehra, where the satellite campus of Central University is proposed, falls in the parliamentary segment represented by Union Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur. The delay over the satellite campus during the previous Congress regime had remained a sore point. The main campus of the Central University will come up in Dharamsala.
There has been considerable delay in the construction of the two split campuses of the Central University at Dharamsala and Dehra. A premier institute announced during the UPA regime in 2007, the Central University is still being run from rented accommodation. The notification for the setting up of the university was issued in 2009 and the first Vice Chancellor appointed in 2010.
Thakur had been miffed over the delay in completion of formalities and had even aired his displeasure at a public meeting in Dehra last November in the presence of CM Jai Ram Thakur. The CM had retorted by stating that such government issues should not be discussed from public dais. Following this showdown, the state government expedited the case with the Centre to allow the change in land user.
