CALCUTTA : Two new AMU education centres to start
this session
NEW DELHI: Two of the five proposed special centres of
Aligarh Muslim University would be operational from the
coming academic session, Vice-Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis
said on May 30.
“We wish to provide the facilities that are available in
Aligarh in other regions too,” Prof. Azis said at a
press conference here.
The special centres at Murshidabad, West Bengal and
Malappuram, Kerala would be functional from the 2010-11
academic session and courses would be offered in MBA and
BA.LLB programmes. “The MBA and BA.LLB programmes would
have an intake of 60 students each,” Prof. Azis said.
“We may offer other programmes too in later years. This
is just the beginning,” he added.
AMU has been sanctioned a grant of Rs 25 crore for each
of the two special centres. While it has already
received Rs 25 crore for the Murshidabad centre, it has
received Rs 10 crore for Malappuram centre.
The West Bengal Government has identified 302 acres of
Farakka Barrage land and recommended its transfer to
AMU. The university will also receive a total of 392
acres from the Kerala Government in the Malappuram
district. Of this, AMU has already received 122 acres.
Three other special centres have been proposed at Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kishanganj in Bihar. According
to Prof. Azis, it was not yet certain when these centres
would be operational.
“The Bihar Government delayed in giving us the land. We
have been offered three non-contiguous pieces of land.
We have put in a request for a contiguous piece of land
near the State highway on which we can establish our
Centre and have received a positive response in this
regard,” he said, adding that the Bihar Government had
agreed to allot 250 acres for the Special Centre.
The Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh Governments are yet
to respond to the proposal to establish special centres
in the region, he added.
Based on representations from the West Bengal and Kerala
Governments and the Gharib Nawaz Foundation for
Education of Muslims in Bhopal, AMU felt the need to
establish regional study centres in the respective
regions. The backwardness of Muslims as illustrated by
the Sachar Committee Report further influenced AMU's
decision to propose the establishment of the five
centres.
