By Agence India Press,
Srinagar: In a major development University of Kashmir has identified 600 kanals of land in Khumbathang, Suru valley in Kargil and 700 kanals of land in Taru Leh in the Ladak region of the J&K state for establishing its Kargil and Leh campuses soon .
According to the university spokesperson the development took place during the week long visit of the Kashmir University Vice chancellor Prof Talat Ahmad to Leh and Kargil districts beginning 1st of August, where in he interacted with top functionaries of the district administration, prominent members of the civil society to chalk out the road map for these mega KU projects. He was accompanied there other top KU officials.
“This decision has been taken with an aim of reaching out to people living in remote areas of the Ladakh division of our state and providing educational facilities to these communities for their socio-economic development,” said Vice chancellor Kashmir University Prof Talat Ahmad. He also informed that he will soon be visiting the Kupwara district in north Kashmir for identification of land for KU Kupwara campus also.
The spokesperson further said that Earlier last week Vice chancellor had meetings with district administration of Kargil and Leh and office bearers and members of the Ladakh Hill development council wherein the state owned sites for the two new campuses for the ladakh region were identified . Minister of transport Qamar Ali Akhoon was present.
Besides the conventional PG courses like Urdu, sociology, education, political science, history Arabic some modern day job oriented course will be started at the Kargil campus and extensive courses on Buddhist studies and geological and geographical studies will be started at the Leh campus.
“It will be my endeavor to make a concerted and collective effort in moving the University towards the newer heights with an objective to let it contribute in a big way in the socio economic development of the people of this region” said Prof Talat to the members of the civil society who called on him at Leh and Kargil. VC visited degree college Kargil and the study centre of the distance education KU. Prof Talat also presented an invited talk to researchers who, had gathered from all over the country to attend a DST sponsored programme on “rocks and geology of ladakh region”
Important to mention here that Kashmir University has already established its campuses in north and south of Kashmir and is soon planning to establish campus at the Kupwara district as well.