Bengal awaits clearance for central agriculture university

Updated on: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The West Bengal government is awaiting clearance for the first Central Agriculture University for extending the green revolution to the eastern region as proposed in the current union budget.
 
"The state government placed a proposal before the Centre to set up such a university at Goaltore in West Midnapore district to cater to the needs for the entire Eastern and North-Eastern region," Agriculture Minister Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya said here.
 
The proposed university is likely to come up within five years on 1,000 acre which was with the agriculture department at a cost of Rs 1,500 crore, he said.
 
The state has two agriculture universities - one at Kalyani and the other in North Bengal, but none of them are a central university. Visvabharati University was the only central university, but it was not an agriculture one, he said.

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