By TCN News,
Aligarh: The Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has constituted a team to expedite the process of land transfer to Aligarh Muslim University for establishing its special centre in Murshidabad. The team will comprise Mr. Moinul Hasan, MP of Murshidabad, West Bengal State Commissioner at New Delhi and Union Finance Minister’s private secretary Mr. Manoj.
The team has been given a mandate to coordinate all the issues relating to the transfer of land from Ministry of Water Works to Ministry of Human Resource Development and finally to AMU.
The Chief Minister has also decided to appoint the Jungipura BDO as the nodal officer to sort out the problems at ground level and to find out suitable temporary premises for holding classes, space for hostels, one for boys and another for girls and staff quarters for faculty and other staff in nearby vicinity including health centre.
Addressing a press conference soon after the meeting MP Moinul Hasan said that the people of the district are jubilant over the coming of AMU special centre. Vice Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis said that the meeting with the Chief Minister was most fruitful. The decisions taken by the Chief Minister today will put on fast track the process of land transfer to AMU and put in place a temporary system at Jungipura for starting the centre in July-August this year, he added.
While thanking the Chief Minister Prof. Azis urged the State government to construct a 30-meter wide road from the national/state highway to the campus site along with power and water for the centre. The Chief Minister has agreed to provide these basic facilities and promised all help for the special centre.
Prof. Azis made it clear that in the beginning only Law and Management courses will be offered and the University will submit a DPR for starting medical school, engineering school and all the other steams existing in the University to the MHRD.