RUSA phase 2 funds for seven universities in TN
Posted on: 04/Feb/2019 10:03:19 AM
On Sunday, 3rd February 2019, prime minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, launched RUSA or Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan phase-2. The point is as many as 7 universities belonging to Tamil Nadu would be benefited by this as these universities would receive funds.
It must be taken into account that the prime minister addressed as many as 150 universities and colleges in India through video conferencing and interacted with the students. For research and skilling the students, Alagappa University of category 1 would receive Rs 100 crores and this would be under the scheme. It is revealed that the rest 6 universities such as Anna University, MKU, Bharathiar University, Bharathidasan University, Annamalai University and Madras University would get an amount of Rs 50 crores each.
The information collected was under this scheme for sake of research purposes the universities could receive amount of Rs 35crores and Rs 15 crores for improving the job opportunities of the students and entrepreneurship development. To get funds, the state universities must prepare project proposals and place it before the expert committee.
Vice-chancellor of Madras University, Mr. P. Duraiswamy, shared his thoughts and said Madras University or MU had sent research proposals in few areas including herbal research and drug development and big data analytics etc. He then spoke about how new and thriving areas for conducting research works were present in their plans. Vice-chancellor of Anna University, Mr. M.K. Surappa revealed that in the cutting edge areas, Anna University had planned to boost the research activities.
He shared his happiness about other departments like biotechnology and aerospace which were involved in advanced research activities and how funds would be issued to these departments. To initiate research in other areas, part of the fund would be given to the faculty members also.
A faculty member from Madras University expressed unhappiness regarding prime minister addressing higher educational institutions in the Hindi language. The faculty member spoke about how nearly a week was spent to prepare for this video conferencing and how many were not able to understand the Hindi language. There were also complaints regarding the interaction of the prime minister with the students being brief.
