Amidst roaring controversy over the Punjab Cabinet’s recent decision for approving setting up of Khalsa University in Amritsar, the Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) president Satyajit Singh Majithia on Thursday appealed the political parties to restraint from playing ‘petty politics’ on the ambitious education project.
Majithia, expressing his gratitude to the State Government for approving the ambitious education project of Khalsa University, chided the selected politicians who are raking up non-issues concerning the new varsity in the state. He added that it would be seat of higher learning and research and boon for border districts of the state.
Majithia reiterated that Khalsa College management is committed to protect Khalsa College as autonomous College and KU is coming up at a separate piece of land away from the College, on the Ram Tirath Road while College stands tall and magnificent on GT Road.
He said that certain “vested interests” are against the KU and select politicians are playing into the hands of these commercial entities who do not want a university to be set up by credible body like KCGC.
At the same time, he thanked the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal for the decision to approve the varsity in the last cabinet meeting and thus made the dreams of 1890 established KCGC’s founders dream to have a University, realized.
He said that the KU will be “professional, multi-faculty, world-class university” with aim to generate employment and human resource to compete at international level. “We will tie up with the world universities for education and research in diverse fields of studies,” he said.
Taking a jibe at some political leaders for making “misleading and misconceived” statement for political reasons, he said that he was surprised at the assertions by some opposition leaders who he said seems to be “misled and ill-informed” on the subject.
Majithia said that the KU will be managed by democratically elected management and would focus on job-oriented, futuristic courses to enable the students to earn respectful livelihoods and turn spiritual human beings with focus on value-based education.
He said KCGC which is a charitable body, running 18 educational institutions including historic Khalsa College has already has vast experience in managing institutions of higher learning. He said KCGC opened 10 institutions including the nine professional colleges in last 12 years which speaks volumes about the aim of the charitable body to spread higher education.