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Excellence in education is the need of the hour, says Moily

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`Alumni should contribute to the growth of their institution'

MAKING A POINT: Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission M. Veerappa Moily speaking at a meeting of alumni association of University College in Mangalore on Sunday. — Photo: R. Eswarraj

MANGALORE: Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission M. Veerappa Moily on Sunday called upon the alumni of University College, Mangalore, to donate funds for the construction of a building to establish a centre of excellence in the college at Hampankatta.

He was speaking at a meeting of the alumni association of the college. Mr. Moily, who is an alumnus of the college, said that excellence in education was the need of the hour.

In many foreign countries alumni contributed to the growth of their educational institution. The alumni of colleges in India should emulate the same, he said.

He said that Mangalore University took over the Government College of Mangalore 12 years ago and renamed it University College of Mangalore. Mr. Moily said that when he was the Chief Minister he had suggested the then Vice-Chancellor M.I. Savadatti to take over the college as its condition academically and administratively was below the standard.

He said that a building committee should be formed to ensure that funds needed for the building was collected and the building was constructed. Later, it should be handed over to the university, he said.

Mr. Moily said that though the country had many educational institutions none of them were listed in top 500 excellent institutions in the world. The annual expansion rate of Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology was "not even one per cent," he said.

Vice-Chancellor K.M. Kaveriappa said that the university was prepared to start under-graduate and post-graduate courses once the building and infrastructure was ready.

Registrar of the university K. Sundar Naik said that the proposed building and other infrastructure facilities would cost about Rs. 3 crore.

He said that some of the alumni of the college, who had promised to donate funds at a similar meeting in Bangalore on April 21, had donated.

Mr. Moily had promised to donate Rs. 1 lakh and had given a cheque for Rs. 25,000. Dayananda Pai who had promised to donate Rs. 25 lakh and had given Rs. 1 lakh, the Registrar said.

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