Chamarajanagar, one of the backward districts in Karnataka, will soon have its own university catering to the higher education needs of the people as Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced setting up of model universities in seven districts, including Chamarajanagar and Kodagu.
What’s special about these universities? They would function with minimal infrastructure and manpower, harnessing the strengths of information technology (IT) for their overall functioning.
In his maiden budget, the CM announced the seven model universities in Chamarajanagar, Kodagu, Hassan, Bagalkot, Bidar, Haveri, and Koppal, which are considered educationally backward. The announcement has perhaps come in the wake of the government’s purported plans of having universities in every district for improving the functioning and supervision of degree colleges.
