TN government announces creation of higher research and education centres at nine universities

Updated on: Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Besides allocating Rs. 150 crore for building infrastructure for the regional centres of Anna University, Tamil Nadu Supremo Jayalaithaa announced creation of higher research and education centres at nine universities in the name of Swami Vivekananda.

In a suo motu statement at the Assembly, the Chief Minister said four more arts and science colleges, two affiliated colleges and a polytechnic weould be started in the State and one engineering college in her Srirangam Assembly constituency.

Apart from spending Rs. 30 crore each on creating educational infrastructure for Madurai and Coimbatore regional centres, the government would also spend Rs. 10 crore each for constructing studentsâ€™ hostels in Madurai, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli regional centres.

In addition, building students hostel at the cost of Rs 10 Crore each at constituent engineering colleges in Dindigul, Ramanathapuram, Tuticorin and Nagercoil, constituent colleges in Pattukottai and Panruti would get hostels at the cost of Rs. 5 crore each.

According to the statement, Rs 10 Crore would be spent on on providing electricity, drinking water, sanitations and other facilities in all the 12 constituent colleges of the Anna University.

Taking into consideration the relevance of Swami Vivekananda's teaching, Ms . Jayalalitha said her government has decided to set up higher research and education centres in his name costing Rs 25 Lakh each at the Madras University, Madurai Kamaraj University, Bharathiyar University, Bharathidasan University, Mother Teresa University, Alagappa University, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Periyar University and Tiruvalluvar University.

Ms. Jayalalithaa said eight new arts and science colleges had been announced in the budget and, now, the government had decided to start four more colleges.

Eleven colleges would be set up in Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district, Kovilpatti in Tuticorin district, Kadaladi, Muthukalathur and Tiruvadanai in Ramanathapuram district, Karambakudi in Pudukottai district, Hosur in Krishnagiri district, Kumarapalayam in Namakkal district, Kangeyam in Tirupur district, Uthiramerur in Kacheepuram district and Peravurani in Thanjavur. One arts and science college for women would come up in Karimangalam in Dharmapuri district.

Furthermore, the Chief Minister also announced two more constituent arts and science colleges. Veppur in Perambalur district would get a womenâ€™s college and Tittakudi in Cuddalore district would get one arts and science college.

The statement also read that since Tiruchi, the centre of the State, had no government engineering colleges, the government would start a college in Srirangam. Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district would get a polytechnic

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