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University: State yet to send Gulbarga’s name

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A delegation is in New Delhi
Union Government ‘cannot take unilateral decision’

GULBARGA: The Union Government has so far not received any recommendations from the State Government on the demand for a Central University in Gulbarga. This is notwithstanding the promise made on the floor of the Assembly by the Government in this connection.

Senior officials of the Human Resource Department told a delegation of the Gulbarga Central University Establishment Action Committee, which is in New Delhi, that the Union Government had not received any such proposal.

Action committee president Pratap Singh Tiwari told The Hindu over telephone from New Delhi that leaders and officials told the delegation that unless the State Government recommends the name of Gulbarga for a Central University, th e Union Government could not take a decision unilaterally.

The officials of the Human Resource Department told the delegation, comprising Tiwari, FKCCI President S.S. Patil, CPI(M) State Secretariat member Maruti Manpade, S.B. Melkeri, K.S. Wali and M.D. Sajjan, that the Union Government had received a proposal from the State Government four months ago recommending either Mysore or Hassan for establishing the university.

The Union Government had not taken any final decision on the place for locating the university in Karnataka.

Prof. Tiwari said that the delegation had met the secretary of the Education Department Agarwal, Joint Secretary Sunil Kumar, CPI(M) Politburo member and MP Brinda Karat, who is also the member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, and pleaded the case of Gulbarga.

Proposal

The delegation now proposes to meet Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia and UGC Chairman Thorat.

It is also making efforts to meet the Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh and the secretary to the Prime Minister to submit a memorandum.

Officials in the Human Resource Ministry said that a draft Bill on the establishment of 16 such universities in the country, including one in Karnataka, was in the final stages of preparation and it would be placed before Parliament during the winter session. In the draft Bill, the exact place where these universities would be established would not be mentioned.

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