Plan to rip Bangalore University into 2 ready
It’s splitsville for Bangalore University. After shelving plans to trifurcate BU, the government is finally ready with its plan to rip the 46-year-old mammoth university into Bangalore University and Bangalore South University.
In about year, students will get their degrees either from Bangalore University or Bangalore South University.
While Bangalore University will have 356 colleges, Bangalore South will have 298.”The proposal to create a Bangalore South University out of Bangalore University should be acceptable to students as many of them want the word ‘Bangalore’ retained in the name. This is why we decided against calling it a Hoskote University or Chikballapur University,” a higher education department official said.
The Karnataka State Universities Act, 2000, will have to be amended to make way for junction. The state government has powers to appoint a vice-chancellor to a newly set-up university without constituting a search committee.
As per the redrawn boundaries, the newly carved out BU will have affiliation of all colleges in Bangalore North taluk of Bangalore Urban district and Hoskote, Devanahalli and Doddaballapur taluk of Bangalore Rural district. Colleges in Chikballapur and Kolar will also be affiliated to the Bangalore University.
Bangalore South University will comprise three taluks – Bangalore South, Bangalore East and Anekal – of Bangalore Urban district, Nelamangala taluk of Bangalore Rural district and Ramanagaram district.
While Jnana Bharathi will be the main campus for Bangalore South University, BU will function out of Central College until a full-fledged 200-acre campus is developed at Hoskote.
The 93-year-old University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering and post-graduate departments will be divided between the two universities.
Former higher education minister Aravinda Limbavali had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of N Rudraiah, former vice-chancellor of Gulbarga University.
The committee, in its July 2009 report, felt that it was proper to retain the name Bangalore for all the three universities and suggested trifurcation as Bangalore South, North and Central universities.
V S Acharya, who succeeded Limbavali, wanted to bifurcate BU and referred the matter to the Karnataka State Higher Education Council. “I have discussed the matter with the chief minister and he has given the green signal to split the university. This will ease the administration of such a large university. I will hold discussions with the vice-chancellor and bring it before the cabinet for approval,” Acharya told TOI.
Splitting logic
Out of 654 colleges affiliated to BU, about 75% are located in Bangalore Urban district itself, particularly in Bangalore East, North and South taluks.
Geographically, the jurisdiction of the new Bangalore University is bigger than the Bangalore South University; the number of colleges are very less mostly in Kolar and Chikballapur districts
Eventually to develop Central College as unitary type of world class university.
The division
Some of the colleges under Bangalore South University will be Vijaya College (RV Road), Shri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College (VV Puram), VV Puram Science College, National College (Basavanagudi), APS College (NR Colony), BHS First Grade College (Jayanagar), BES College of Law (Jayanagar),JSS Institute of Education (Jayanagar), Oxford College of Arts (JP Nagar), Alliance Business Academy (NS Palya), Jyoti Nivas College (Hosur Road), BMS College of Law (Basavanagudi) and Dayananda Sagar College of Education (Kumaraswamy Layout).
Some of the colleges under Bangalore University: Maharani Arts College, Maharani Science College, MS Ramaiah College of Law (MS Ramaiah Nagar); Acharya Institute of Management and Science (Peenya Industrial Estate), MES College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Malleswaram), Seshadripuram Arts, Science and Commerce College, Baldwin Methodist College (Hosur Road), Bishop Cotton Women’s College, RBANMS First Grade College and St Ann’s College for Women.
Source: [Times of India]
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