Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday stressed on setting up a National Defence University (NDU) campus in Uttar Pradesh.
Yogi Adityanath met National Defence University Vice-Chancellor Bimal N Patel at his Kalidas Marg official residence here on Friday and discussed the need for setting up the NDU campus in Uttar Pradesh.
The chief minister received detailed information from Patel about the establishment of its regional campus in Uttar Pradesh, infrastructural facilities, starting educational and training programmes etc. He has assured full cooperation by the state government on the proposal of setting up a campus in UP.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi was also present on the occasion.
It is noteworthy that the National Defence University was established in 2020 by the Indian parliament to fulfill the need for skilled personnel, research and training.
Bimal N Patel said that as per the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the aim of the university was to prepare trained youth for security forces. He said the NDU offered diploma courses in police science and industrial and private security, certificate courses in physical education and cyber security etc.
He said in the coming academic session, courses like police administration, criminology, psychology, cyber security etc. were proposed for graduates, masters, PhD etc in a phased manner.