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“University status for Thiagarajar College will be beneficial to Madurai”

MADURAI: The State Government’s move to convert Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar College here into a university will benefit Madurai to a great extent, the Madurai City Development Coordination Committee has said.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, its president R. Chokkalingam said that the committee would launch a campaign to send five lakh letters to the Chief Minister stating the benefits of this move.

“This conversion is an opportunity for the growth of southern districts. It should not be lost owing to opposition from vested interests,” he said.

Tamil Nadu Janata Dal (Secular) State general secretary K. John Moses said that though many development initiatives were announced for Madurai, only a few had fructified.

That the State Government had delayed passing the legislation was a cause for concern. If the letter-campaign failed to yield a positive result, agitations and demonstrations would be held till the bill was passed, he said.

Decrying those spreading misinformation on reservation and faculty benefits, Mr. Chokkalingam said that the college management had categorically stated that the quota system would be adhered to.

The Thiagarajar College of Engineering could accommodate 610 students. A figure that would increase manifold if it were to be converted into a university, he said.

When self-financing concept was introduced in 1983, 25 engineering colleges were in Tamil Nadu, of which 17 were run by the State.

At present, while 352 self-financing institutes had come up, only three more new Government engineering colleges had come up, he said.

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