AGARTALA, August 26 (TIWN): The Bill for Tripura’s own state university wouldn’t be tabled in the forthcoming monsoon session of the state legislative assembly. The bill would need further deliberations and understanding before it was tabled in the assembly, Tripura education minister Tapan Chakraborty said here today.

Speaking to reporters at the civil secretariat after a crucial meeting of the state cabinet today, education minister Chakraborty said that the Department felt necessity of conducting further deliberations and understand certain issues associated with it before the Bill was placed before the assembly.

The minister had earlier said that the government was actively working to place the bill for a separate state university for consideration of approval before the state legislative assembly in its monsoon session slated to start from August 29. During the initial years, the state university wouldn’t be having any government degree colleges under it. The functional degree colleges would continue to operate under the Tripura (Central) University for the time being, the minister had said.

The State University Bill was initially conceptualized as to come up centering the Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) College campus in Agartala city. The government considered a separate state university since several issues unique for the state couldn’t be accommodate in the guidelines of the central university, a source informed.

The university was supposed to start the State University in the Maharaja Bir Bikram College campus, renaming the college as Maharaja Bir Bikram University as a sign of respect to the history and tradition of the institute. Chakraborty today further said that his other entrusted department, the Department of Law, would place a bill for consideration of approval to regulate all three-wheeler vehicles including rickshaws, battery operated rickshaws and others.

The Tripura Rickshaw Niyamak Bill, as it would be called, would be a move to shift the three wheeler vehicle segment from the jurisdiction of the Agartala Municipal Corporation to the transport department.