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| 18th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Thane will get 3rd varsity campus
Mumbai: The University of Mumbai will soon have its third
campus this one in Thane. The varsity,which earlier planned
to start a mere sub-centre in north Mumbai, has now decided
to have a larger presence in Thane, to cater to the expanding
higher education services in the district.
Thane municipal corporation had handed over 6.20 acres
for the sub-centre at Balkum, towards Bhiwandi. Now, the
plan has turned more ambitious. After Mumbai district,
we are seeing most colleges come up in Thane. We will
finally have a campus here. It cannot happen overnight
and will take about 10 to 15 years to develop completely.
But, this is the dream of the university, said university
vice-chancellor Rajan Welukar.
Construction will begin immediately as the university
has already set aside Rs 75 lakh in this years budget
for the Thane centre,which will, in its early years,merely
conduct administrative work such as admitting students
and handing out results.
But over time, we want to offer programmes that will allow
vertical mobility to students from their colleges. This
will include introduction of both postgraduate and doctoral
programmes so that students from remote and tribal areas
can also benefit, said Welukar.
Also, in a wired world, university officials felt that
lectures delivered in Kalina could be beamed live to the
Thane campus. Once we have some facilities up and running,
we can also allow teachers to carry out assessment and
evaluation work from Thane. That way, the faculty will
not have to travel all the way to Kalina, said Vilas Shinde,
controller of examinations.
After the ground-breaking ceremony, five local MLAs from
various political stripes together contributed Rs 50 lakh
from their funds to start the construction and developmental
work of the centre. Currently, the university has two
more sub-centres in Ratnagiri and Kalyan.
Reason For Expansion
Currently, the University of Mumbai has two campuses one
at Fort and the other at Kalina. Of late, due to paucity
of land in Mumbai district, more than a 100 colleges of
the 618 affiliated to the University of Mumbai, have come
up in Thane alone. After Mumbai district, the varsity
is witnessing a huge growth in higher education institutes
in Thane district.
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