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Patna,(BiharTimes): With two central universities––CUB and AMU––yet to get land and an international university in Nalanda running into rough weather after the appointment of a Reader as a Vice Chancellor the Bihar government has now mooted a plan to open four more universities. But that is not all: There is a proposal for establishing a central library, just like Chennai Central Library.
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While one of them would be exclusively for women the Human Resources Development department is now planning to set up a Hindi University to be named after Rashtra Kavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar in his native Begusarai district, a Sports University and an Information Technology (IT) University.
According to sources the HRD has sought preliminary project reports (PPRs) for each of the projects, which will form the basis of the detailed project reports (DPRs) to be developed later.
The Women's University, second of its kind in the country, will be developed on the pattern of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University (SNDT), Mumbai. The 95-year-old SNDT Women's University has three campuses, 26 colleges, 38 university departments and enrollment of over 80,000 women.
Reports said that the HRD secretary S Shiv Kumar has moved the proposals along with several other recommendations for major changes in the field of higher education.
As per plan the Women’s University would have all the women’s colleges of the state under one umbrella, like the Aryabhatt Knowledge University (AKU), which aims to bring all technical institutions under its fold.
However, academics are of the view that with Aryabhatt Knowledge University still functioning from a camp office near Gandhi Maidan and other university, Maulana Mazhar-ul-Haque Arabi-Farsi University, running aground one can only keep fingers crossed whether this exercise of opening universities in wholesale manner would ever see the light of the day or not. Or their fate would be like the four-roomed engineering colleges without full faculty strength and hostels opened by the present regime in several places in the state.
Besides, there is no dearth of women’s rights groups who are opposed to the establishment of Women’s University in 21st century India. A century or so back such university and college had some meaning as purdah system was prevalent and women’s education not so common. Now with many uni-gender institutions throwing their doors open and becoming co-ed what is the point in setting up such university?
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