BENGALURU: The three universities located in Bengaluru who are fighting over several issues after the trifurcation of Bangalore University (BU) have been instructed to settle their disputes in the next 15 days.
Higher Education Minister G T Devegowda insisted that the vice-chancellors of all the three universities — Bengaluru Central University (BCU), Bengaluru North University (BNU) and BU — sit together and settle the issues and come back to him after 15 days.
Speaking after a review meeting with VCs, registrars and finance officers of all the state universities on Thursday, Devegowda said, “We have discussed about all the issues. The vice-chancellors have shared several issues at universities. Even the issue between the three universities located in Bengaluru was discussed and I have set a deadline of 15 days for them to settle everything.”
“I heard about the issues between the three universities through media reports. After 15 days, we will call for another meeting with Higher Education Department officials and also the VCs of all the three universities to finalise things,” he said.Though the trifurcation was done three years ago, the appointment of VCs was done a year ago and the new universities — BCU and BNU — issued notification to start courses from the current academic year. But, the universities are fighting internally over control of some properties.
Govt tells BCU not to shut journalism dept
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