A media incubation centre will be established in Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism to promote start-ups in the media sector.NITI Ayog has granted approval for this.

The university will conduct a detailed study on the factors of socio- economic heterogeneity in society and their redressal. These decisions were taken at a meeting of the management committee and Maharparishad of the university chaired by CM Shiv Raj Chouhan on Tuesday.

Chouhan said that research and study will also be conducted on Adwait Vedanta at the university. The new posts should be filled under Higher Education and UGC norms. It was told at the meeting that the language Study Centre a Cultural Study Centre have begun functioning in the University.

A foreign media study centre will be set up at the university in which news published in Pakistan, China and Nepal media will be analysed. The University has conducted BCA examination online. As many as 210 new study centres have been recognized in the last one year by the university. The number of students has increased during this period by 12 per cent. The University has published the first Sanskrit News Magazine Atulya Bharatam.

A social media research centre has been set up in the university. Finance Minister Jayant Malaiya, Public Relations and Water Resources Minister Narottam Mishra, MP Alok Sanjar, Vice-Chancellor BK Kuthiyala besides Government and non-government members of the Mahaparishad were present during the meeting.