UP govt. sanctions just 1% of the funds required
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Lucknow: The Urdu Arabic-Persian university announced amidst much fanfare in 2009 by the state government is reeling under acute financial crisis. The Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the proposed university who demanded Rs 150 crore from the state government only to be contented with Rs 1.51 crores.
The building of the proposed university is still under construction however, Ansari stated on Thursday to start few courses on a token basis form July 2011.
As per records, the state government has given a grant of Rs 11 crore for the proposed university. The funds have been used for construction of the building at Sitapur road. The working agency UP Rajkiya Nirman Nigam on its part has already spent Rs 17 crores resulting in a deficit of six crores to be adjusted in next instalments of funds.
Ansari while addressing the first executive committee meeting of the proposed university held on Thursday at RML Law University stated that a proposal of Rs 150 crores in current fiscal to be given by September has been sent to the state government. However, the state government has sanctioned just Rs 1.51 for the present financial year of 2010-11.
Despite the financial crunch Ansari declared ambitious plans for the university. It is another matter that many of them need funds to materialise. As per Ansari, the proposed university will also fund minority educational institutions imparting higer education. “There will modern courses as biotechnology, nanotechnology, informatics sciences, environment and life sciences,” he claimed. It will be however mandatory for the students to have studied urdu, arabic or persian as a subject upto high school level. A language lab will be set up with stress on pronunciation. Comparative language courses with Kashmiri, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalum, Bengali, Sanskrit etc. A digital library for Indo-Islamic manuscripts will be set up beside several online courses.