AGARTALA, April 9 (TIWN): Tripura State University Bill likely to be placed in this monsoon budget session if everything goes on right track. It is to be mentioned here that the bill for a separate state was placed in the recently concluded assembly session but it was later sent to the select committee for further deliberations and understanding before it is tabled next.

According to the official sources, the department felt necessity of conducting further deliberations and understand certain issues associated with it before the Bill was placed in the forthcoming monsoon session here.

The department is now actively working to place the bill for a separate state university for consideration of approval before the state legislative assembly in its monsoon session, said source.

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 separate state university would be set up with an aim to make significant strides in the field of education of the state. According to the bill sent to select committee for further deliberations, an estimated total amount of Rs. 14.00 crores approximately will be required for the maintenance of the proposed university out of which the net expenditure from the consolidated fund of the state is estimated at Rs. 180.00 lakhs approximately per annum.

However the remaining amount will be met from grants to be made by the University Grants Commission and the University’s own resources.