12 semi-self-financed Eng. collges in Gujarat

Updated on: Friday, May 29, 2009

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has decided to start 12 new degree engineering colleges to be run on public-private-partnership (PPP) model.

The government is keen to start these, to be called semi-self-financed colleges during the coming academic year itself.

As the land will be given to the private party on 30 years lease at a token cost of Re 1, they are called semi-self-financed colleges. The private party will be given up to Rs 10 crore for constructing the building.

The fees in these colleges will be less than that of self-financed colleges, but definitely more than the government run ones. They will be set up in Anand, Kheda, Vadodara, Amreli, Porbandar, Junagadh, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Mehsana, Navsari, Dahod and Tapi.

An entrepreneur with an investment of Rs 100 crore in infrastructure sector for three years, or an educational trust that has the experience of running an All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)-approved institute will be permitted to run the institutes on the piece of government land.

'By June 30, we hope to find private partners. Initially, we will allow them to start running the colleges on government polytechnic premises for a year, during which period they will have to construct the building,' a senior official said.

The respective district collectors have already identified land, and the process of handing it over to the government has begun.

The govt has decided to replicate the PPP model for starting nine polytechnics in various parts of Gujarat, an official said.

Kalvimalar

12 semi-self-financed Eng. collges in Gujarat

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