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Classes
in AMU's Murshidabad campus from January
Saturday November 20, 2010 07:24:17 PM,
IANS
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Ahiran
(West Bengal): Classes in the Aligarh Muslim
University's (AMU) campus in this rural belt of Murshidabad
district will start from January, Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee said here Saturday.
"The classes will begin from this academic year itself in January.
The AMU will initially work out of a big rented building which
also has residential facilities for students," Mukherjee said
after laying the foundation stone of the campus here, about 60 km
from district headquarters Bahrampur.
He said the AMU campus would go a long way in increasing education
standards in the backward district as it will impart education
from the nursery to the post-doctoral level.
Mukherjee said the project report was complete and while he had
granted a budgetary support of Rs.25 crore, the human resource
development ministry has sanctioned another Rs.25 crore for the
campus.
"(A total of) 265 acres have been earmarked and handed over to the
university authorities for the project with help from the state
government and union water resources ministry. I want a very
modern first grade campus. We want to set up an educational
complex for higher education that will benefit the people of
eastern India," he said.
Describing knowledge and education as the main ingredients for
ushering in comprehensive development of all sections of people,
he said: "The faster we can reach high standards of education to
the people, the faster will the nation go forward".
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said the full-fledged
university campus will be set up gradually.
"We are proud to have the Aligarh Muslim University here. It is a
big name as an institute for the Muslims with 30,000 students,
1700 professors, 325 courses and 95 departments. When the
Murshidabad campus comes up, it will help in expanding education
in our state".
"In our state we have tried every way to make education modern and
secular. Aligarh Muslim University's education system is also
developed, modern and secular. We want such a university," he
added.
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