Gourbanga Viswavidyalaya to open today

Statesman News Service

MALDA, June 1: The Gourbanga Viswavidyalaya will start functioning from tomorrow in Malda. Newly appointed vice chancellor for this university Prof. Surabhi Banerjee will set up her office at Malda College primarily to run its functioning. Yesterday, Prof. Banerjee held a meeting with the concerned officials including the district magistrate and visited proposed site where the building of the university will be built in English Bazaar town. The minister for state parliamentary affairs and environment, Mr Sailen Sarkar and local CPI-M MLA Mr Khagen Murmu and other officials including government engineers held a meeting to chalk out a building plan for this university here. It may be noted that state government has already allotted Rs. 15 crore for the construction of university building and infrastructure development. And local university resource mobilization committee had collected Rs. 1.5 crore as reserve fund. According to the officials, the finance minister Mr Asim Dasgupta will talk to UGC officials on 4 June regarding two new universities are to be set up at Barasat in North-24 Parganas and at English Bazaar town in Malda. Mr. Tapas Chatterjee has been appointed as registrar of this university on contract basis for his working experiences in university of north Bengal. The Malda College authorities have provided the ground floor of its new building to begin official job for Gourbanga Viswavidyalaya. Prof. Surabhi Banerjee today held a meeting with the principal and teacher in charge and president of colleges in three districts and discussed about admission of students. It was decided that 28 colleges of three districts (Malda North and South Dinajpur) would be coming under Gourbanga Viswavidyalaya. The students who will be getting admitted in first year in these colleges will be registered as student of Gourbanga Viswavidyalaya. It was decided that this university would not take admission of students for P G course until completion of its own buildings in the proposed site. The government has finally managed more than 25 acres land from agriculture department here for setting up the university.