Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University K. Byrappa said here on Tuesday that efforts will be made to get at least Rs. 10 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the State government for the development of University College, the constituent college of the university at Hampankatta.
Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the evening M.Com degree course at the college, he said that as the college had completed 100 years, it was eligible to get Rs. 5 crore from the UGC. The UGC had a special programme for granting funds to those colleges which have completed a century.
Mr. Byrappa said that efforts would be made to get the ‘college with potential for excellence’ tag for the University College from the UGC. After getting this recognition, the college could get Rs. 3 crore from the UGC.The Vice-Chancellor said that efforts would be made to seek autonomy for the college. Mr. Byrappa said that 16 students have enrolled for the evening M.Com course.
He reiterated that an evening college would be opened in the premises of the college from the academic year 2015-16 which would offer more post-graduate courses as well as certificate and diploma courses.
CCTV in classroomsIn an informal chat with presspersons the Vice-Chancellor said that digital closed circuit television cameras would be installed in all classrooms, laboratories, the campus of the university, at the University College, Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa College and its post-graduate centre at Chikka Aluvara shortly. Bids have been invited for this.
He said that the university would strictly implement the partial ban on the use of cell phones in the education institutes owned by it.
The Vice-Chancellor said that students and teachers would not be allowed to use the cell phones in the classrooms, laboratories and in the corridors. But they could use it on the campus. The university has re-issued a circular to this effect.
