[Assam] UGC to set up world-class university in Guwahati

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

UGC to set up 14 world-class universities, 316 colleges 




14 Jun 2008, 0318 hrs IST, 
Parvesh Sharma,TNN





PATIALA: In what would come as heaven sent to the country's students 
in future and its education system, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has 
completed all necessary work related to policy matters before it goes on to 
establish 14 new world class universities 
and 316 colleges across major metros an cities in India. 

"A committee, 
which was specially formed for the preparation of an Act that would make this 
possible, would submit a report on this shortly," said Mool Chand Sharma, 
vice-chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC), in Patiala on Thursday. 


The universities, when they come up, will be located at Amritsar, Pune, 
Kolkata, Coimbatore, Mysore, Visakhapatnam, Gandhinagar, Jaipur, Patna, Bhopal, 
Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Greater Noida and Guwahati. 

Sharma said he wwas 
"looking forward and positive" about the plan. "We want to maintain global 
standards in our universities so that our next generation can get the required 
education," he said. 


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