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Abid Shah
New Delhi, August 26: Lok Sabha member from Jammu, Mr Madan Lal Sharma, has tried to allay fears about the fate of Central University to be built near Jammu by saying that there should be no confusion regarding Central Government’s firm plan to set up CU in Jammu and an Indian Institute of Management at Srinagar as per the original plan.
Asked to specify as to what caused confusion, Mr Sharma said that mainly this was because of bureaucracy that preferred to set people of Jammu and Valley against each other. The Vice-Chancellor of the new university Professor Wahid Qureshi too got caught in the wrangling between diverse interests hampering the task of setting up office of the university at Jammu. Now an office of the new CU is functional at Jammu said Mr Sharma, adding where an Officer on Special Duty, Mr MC Verma, has been posted by Central Government.
Mr Sharma preferred silence over the loss of time jeopardising the very first session that should have commenced since last month. Yet he said, “It is unfortunate that the opening of the CU in Jammu has been politicised. This is detrimental to the interests of the students, teachers and people of Jammu. The process of appointing staff besides other steps for opening the university is very much on. Thus, there is no need for agitation.”
He added that adequate land for building the university has been demarcated at Raya Brori in Sambha district which is just about eight kilometres away from Jammu. Mr Sharma said that there is going to be no dearth of finances and other resources for making CU a reality soon. And, thus, soon agitation launched would not be relevant.
He said that vested interests tried to mislead students by saying that the new university could be shifted to Srinagar despite the fact that the Government had approved a management institute for Srinagar. Besides this, Srinagar does not have |
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