State Cupboard sub-committee recommends closure of two-year-old Hassan College

A view of the Hassan College campus close to Hassan.
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A view of the Hassan College campus close to Hassan.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The State Cupboard sub-committee, headed by Deputy Chief Minister D.Okay. Shivakumar, has determined to advocate the closure of 9 new universities, together with Hassan College. If the committee’s suggestion is carried out, the doorways of the college can be shut inside two years of its existence.

The college that got here into existence on March 21, 2023, has over 31,000 college students from 54 faculties in Hassan district.

T.C. Taranath, a retired professor of Botany, took cost as the primary Vice-Chancellor of the college. The Hema Gangothri campus, which was earlier functioning beneath Mysore College, was transformed into the headquarters of the brand new college. The campus has over 74 acres of land.

The college was established as per the suggestions of the Nationwide Data Fee to take larger training to the doorstep. The State authorities had introduced a grant of ₹2 crore. Nevertheless, the quantity was by no means launched. The college managed its bills with its assets together with an affiliation price and college students’ charges, stated Mr. Taranath.

The college was required for Hassan district, because the gross enrolment ratio in larger training in Hassan was as little as 15.54%, which is approach under the State common of 32.8%. “The college was established by passing an modification invoice in each homes of the State meeting. By the media, I received to know that the Cupboard sub-committee advisable the closure of universities. I don’t know concerning the technicalities concerned within the course of,” he stated.

The college didn’t get an opportunity to recruit workers. The posts of instructing and non-teaching at Mysore College had been allotted to the brand new college contemplating the requirement. There have been 27 instructing and round 25 non-teaching workers. Other than that, round 25 visitor college had been appointed.

The Vice-Chancellor stated that the administration had made honest efforts to enhance the standard of training. It had a memorandum of understanding for tutorial change and analysis actions with the Nationwide Institute of Meals Know-how, Entrepreneurship and Administration, Thanjavur, and Bridgewater State College of the U.S.

If the college is closed, the everlasting workers would return to Mysore College and the campus would proceed as a post-graduation centre. Even after repeated appeals from the college, the federal government didn’t grant funds. Thus far, the Vice-Chancellor couldn’t get an official automobile or an official residence on the campus, he added.