The Governor of Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul has said that apart from encouraging original research, the universities should also hold evening classes for job-oriented courses.
He was presiding over a meeting with vice chancellors (VC) of the state universities at Raj Bhawan on Friday. Advising the universities to follow the academic calendar, he said that examinations and convocations should be held in time and focus should be on making the university centre of excellence.
The Governor suggested that evening classes for foreign languages, cyber security course and other such job oriented courses can be held in the Universities of the State. Students will become more employable after doing such courses besides their regular studies, he said. He said that these courses will be taken by students with lots of fun and elan and these will definitely shape their future course of action in their lives ahead.
The Governor told the VC of the Sanskrit university to carry out scientific research on Yoga and Jyotish. He said that effort should be made to use solar energy in campuses of universities.
The additional chief secretary Ranvir Singh, secretary to the governor, Ravi Nath Raman and VCs of all state universities were present on the occasion.