The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : ‘BU trifurcation will cost Rs. 200 crore’

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‘BU trifurcation will cost Rs. 200 crore’

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BANGALORE: In a response note to the report submitted by Bangalore University Trifurcation Committee, headed by N. Rudraiah, on trifurcation, deans of various faculties of Bangalore University and professors and officers, have raised issues about the parameters for trifurcation.

In a press release here, the response note said that “the trifurcation is based on a single parameter of the number of colleges that would be inherited by the proposed three universities — Bangalore South, Bangalore Central and Bangalore North”.

According to the team which has come up with the note, “the report seems to have presumed that if the number of colleges is pegged to around 200, the universities will function better to fulfil the academic aspirations of the students from the respective areas”.

They also add that the elementary mathematical assumption is coupled with several other areas of assumptions regarding the successful functioning of the university.

Listed under finance, one of these “areas of assumption” is the financial aspect of running the trifurcated universities.

“There are, at present, 48 departments in Bangalore University, with most of them located on the Jnanabharathi campus coming under the proposed Bangalore South University,” says the note. It adds that the required infrastructure and academic staff would be a heavy burden on the state exchequer, quoting the sum as “over Rs. 200 crore.”

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