CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday passed the Haryana Private Universities Bill, 2006, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya Khanpur Kalan Act, 2006, and the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Ordinance, 2006.

The Haryana Private Universities Act, 2006, provides for establishment and incorporation of private universities to impart higher education and regulating their functions. Several institutions have evinced keen interest in setting up of private universities in Haryana, especially in the fields of Management, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Law, Environment Science, Medical Education, Engineering courses and other new emerging areas of knowledge.

The Act would also ensure certain minimum standards of quality and safeguard the interests of students, especially of Haryana. It would also pave the way for establishment of self financed non-affiliating private universities.

The Mahila Vishwavidyalaya Act aims at establishing and incorporating a women's university which would be a teaching-cum-affiliating university at Khanpur Kalan. This university would lay special emphasis on emerging areas of Information Technology, Computer Education, Medical Sciences, Bio-technology, Environmental Studies, Technology and Management Studies. Haryana would be a pioneer State in North India to establish such a university for women with focus on professional and advanced studies.

The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Ordinance, 2006, paves the way for a person having more than two living children to become a Sarpanch or Panch of a Gram Panchayat or a Member of a Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad or continue as such.

Earlier during question hour Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLAs staged a walk-out over the proposed Special Economic Zone to be set up by Reliance and the State Government.

They staged another walkout during Zero Hour when the Speaker disallowed them from demanding a CBI enquiry into the Agrofed scam.

Later talking to media persons in the Press lobby, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Union Law Minister H.R.Bhardwaj had agreed to setting up a separate High Court for Haryana. He emphasised that this separate High Court would be set up in Chandigarh.

Asked about the ongoing "tussle'' in the family of the late Chief Minister Bansi Lal, he said he was trying to defuse the situation and create an atmosphere of love and affection among the family members. He clarified that the State Government had given proper safety and security to the widow of the late Chief Minister and it was wrong on the part of Ranbir Singh Mahendra, MLA and the elder son of Chaudhary Bansi Lal, to allege that his mother was under house arrest. He also refused to comment further on this family dispute saying that it was their personal matter.

Mr. Hooda said he would be visiting European countries including Holland, Germany, France and England for marketing Haryana with a view to attracting foreign investment in the State from October 7.

On SEZ, he said that many multipurpose SEZs were also being set up in other cities of the State like Ambala and Rewari on 10 to 2500 acres of land. He said the Reliance project would not only earn a huge revenue for the State but also give a number of job opportunities to the youth.

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