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| 18th
August 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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