THE Hyderabad-based Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is all set to open its regional centre for Odisha in Cuttack.
THE Hyderabad-based Maulana Azad
National Urdu University (MANUU) is all set to open its regional centre for
Odisha in Cuttack. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is likely to lay the
foundation stone of the proposed centre at CDA Sector-13 on Wednesday.
In 2015, the Central university
had decided to open its regional centre in Odisha and asked the State
Government to allocate land. It had also sought fund from the University Grant
Commission (UGC) to go ahead with its proposed centre at Cuttack.
Following a Cabinet decision in
June 2015, the Government had allotted five acres of land on the backside of
Biju Patnaik park in CDA Sector-13 to the university for its regional centre.
The formal registration of the land in favor of MANUU was completed in
December 2015. Work on construction of the proposed campus gained momentum after
UGC sanctioned `36 crore for infrastructure of MANUU’s regional centre.
Besides promoting and developing
Urdu language, the centre will help in imparting education and training in
vocational and technical subjects by offering ITI and diploma courses. While
each trade in the two-year ITI courses will have 60 seats, each stream of the
three-year diploma will have 30 seats. The university has 17 off-campuses and
regional centres across the country.
Among others, Finance Minister
Sashi Bhusan Behera, Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, Barbati-Cuttack MLA Debasis
Samantaray, Vice-Chancellor of MANUU Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz, former VC and
liaison-cum-nodal officer MQ Khan are scheduled to grace the occasion.
