The Advisor to Governor, Madhukar Gupta held a meeting at Project Bhawan to review the status report on the construction of colleges and universities in different parts of the State.
The Government is currently working on establishing University on Fish Technology at Gumla, Dairy University at Dumka, Agriculture University at Garhwa and Tilka Manjhi University at Godda.
It was decided at the meeting that the colleges will be run on public-private-partnership mode. The Birsa Agriculture University will initiate the process of issuing tenders and allied activities will be done by the university also.
Academic activities in all universities will start from the next session.Addressing the meeting, Gupta said all buildings’ construction activities must be completed by the end of September. He also asked the authorities to ensure timeliness in the construction of buildings and to monitor the works in every 15 days.
Gupta also underlined the necessity of reviewing work at the level of Principal Secretary and Development Commissioner and issued instruction to fix deadline for the completion of work.
The Advisor instructed the authorities to complete the construction of Tilika Manjhi Agriculture University by the end of the current fiscal and stressed on providing priority to students of Jharkhand in registration, admission and tution fee in all colleges.
He emphasised on the quality of education and asked authorities to ensure it matches international standards.Chief Secretary, R.S.Sharma gave emphasis to the quality of education and better management of institutions. He asked to begin diploma courses from December.
The meeting was attended by Development Commissioner, A.K.Sarkar; Principal Secretary, Finance, Sukhdev Singh; Principal Secretary, Agriculture & Sugarcane Development, Arun Kumar; Principal Secretary, Animal Husbandry, B.K.Tripathi; Secretary, Planning & Development, Avinash Kumar; VC, BAU, M.P.Pandey and other official of the departments.