The Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), established over a decade ago at the initiative of the then Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in his native district Tiruvarur, will soon be setting up a campus in Tiruchi.
A 31-acre site in K. Abhishekapuram zone in Tiruchi City Corporation limits has been offered by the State government to the CUTN. The move to establish an off-campus in Tiruchi, mooted by its former Vice-Chancellor Aditya Prasad Dash, will coincide with signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchi, to offer management programmes with specialisations and another with Salim Ali Institute of Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, Vice-Chancellor M. Krishnan told The Hindu.
Prof. Krishnan said the State government was quite forthcoming in sanctioning land for the off-campus in Tiruchi, where a greater number of programmes in humanities had been proposed.
