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`Proposals to amend varsity bill will be placed in Assembly'

Staff Correspondent

Committee of education experts to make the recommendations

HASSAN: The proposals for amendment to the University Bill will be placed in the Assembly during the budget session, Higher Education Minister D.H. Shankaramurthy has said.

He was addressing presspersons in Arsikere on Thursday.

The Government had constituted a public committee to recommend amendments to the Karnataka Universities Act, and it had submitted a draft report on Wednesday.

"We will now form a permanent committee of education experts that will review the draft copy and make the recommendations. It will be presented in the legislature during the budget session," he said.

The Minister said that there would be no problem this year in conducting the Common Entrance Test.

He said he had suggested a uniform test for CET and COMED-K, and that discussions in this regard were on.

"We have no objection to COMED-K conducting a separate test for students from outside the State," he said.

Temporary staff working in Karnataka Open University would be made permanent.

The coalition Government would complete one year on February 3.

"In one year, we have achieved a lot. The Cabinet has been expanded and all districts gave got representation.

We have announced an agricultural policy, and solved the problems faced by students, fishermen and weavera. We have proved that it is a development-oriented Government," he said.

The Minister said that women would be inducted into the Cabinet when the BJP would take over.

Mr. Shankaramurthy said he had not changed his stance on Tippu. He refused to comment on the former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda's suggestion to ban Virat Hindu Samajotsava.

"The samajotsava was conducted in more than 116 places in the State and there was violence only in Bangalore. It is definitely a black spot on us. The Chief Minister has said there is no need for a judicial inquiry. My opinion is also the same," Mr. Shankaramurthy added.

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