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BU celebrates Foundation Day

BERHAMPUR: The Berhampur University celebrated its 44th foundation day on Saturday.

The chief guest of the function was the speaker of the Orissa State Assembly, Pradip Kumar Amat. State Cabinet Minister, Bikram Keshari Arukh and Gopalpur MLA, Pradip Panigrahy attended the function as guests. All the three guests were part of the alumnus of the Berhampur University.

In his welcome address the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Bijay Kumar Sahu urged the State government to provide adequate timely support for the development of the university. He took up the issue of demand for regularisation of temporary employees of the university who have served more than a decade and filling of large scale vacancies in posts of teachers in different departments. Mr. Amat, Mr. Arukh and Mr. Panigrahi promised to take up the issues related to the progress of the university with the State government. The registrar of the university, J.K.Mohapatra, its post-graduate council chairman, A.S.N. Murty and adviser of the university Students’ union were among the dignitaries attending the function.

The students of the university and its affiliated colleges who had excelled in different fields were awarded. Mr. Mohapatra read out the annual report of the university. At present the university has 20 post graduate departments. When it started in 1967 it had 11 colleges under it. Now 128 colleges are affiliated to it. There are six autonomous colleges in the region of south Orissa under the jurisdiction of the university. Recently a proposal has been sent to make Science College, Hinjli in chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s constituency an autonomous institute. Recently the university has got sanction to open up new departments like Microbiology, geophysics, M. Pharma, Education and Hindi.

The university has introduced e-governance on its campus and it is working on having customised software for the purpose.

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