Bearys Group to launch engg college

Education has played a major role in the annals of success of the group and a mission that began in a thatched hut in 1906 in Kodi, Kundapur, has presently seen the birth of a number of educational institutions.

A press release from Siddique Beary of Bearys Academy of Learning here on Sunday stated that the group is presently imparting education from pre-primary to collegiate and professional levels to over 3,000 students from poor strata of society. At a time when education has become unaffordable for the have-nots, the educational institutions of the group consciously does not demand donations or capitation fees, the release stated.

Referring to setting up of BIT, the release stated it is taking shape next to Mangalore University at Innoli in Boliyar village in a pristine location overlooking the Nethravathi. The BIT campus has many firsts to its credit, including that it is the first integrated new generation residential engineering college in Karnataka, first green building campus in India and the first to have a Dean Research in its first year itself.

M Veerappa Moily, Union minister for law and justice, B S Yeddyurappa, chief minister, will inaugurate the Bearys Knowledge Campus and BIT respectively on the campus at 2.30 pm. Yeddyurappa's ministerial colleagues V S Acharya, Aravinda Limbavali, and J Krishna Palemar, B A Moideen, former minister, H P Khincha, vice chancellor, VTU, Nalin Kumar Katil, MP, U T Khader, Mangalore MLA, and Prof K M Kaveriappa, vice-chancellor, Mangalore University will be the guests of honour.