AGARTALA, April 15 (TIWN): Kolkata's Jadavpur University former Professor Gautam Bose joined MBB state University on Friday as the first Vice Chancellor of the new university. As per rule the VC is selected first and soon after he assumes office the administrative functioning of the university and appointment process of other officials will begin. All the steps are being taken to start admission from this academic session in the historical Maharaja Bir Bikram college campus where separate infrastructure has already been built for the University along with two degree colleges and the law college. The new university would ease pressure on Tripura (central) University and help boost excellence in higher education, the minister said adding that Tripura has 22 degree colleges, two medical colleges, and 15 other professional and technical colleges with total annual enrollment of about 18,000 students.Keeping a few lakhs of youth unemployed in the state, Tripura government is all set to begin with the new state university from August to provide quality education to the people and nil employment in returns.

It is to be mentioned here that the stage is all set to start to start new state university functioning from August. The left front government in Tripura has decided to set up a ‘state university’ to improve the scope of higher education. The government plans to launch the university at Maharaja Bir Bikram College, which has a large campus, to encourage teaching environment in the capital city. To widen the higher education scope the state came up with this proposal of establishing this new state University other than already running Tripura Central University. MBB University would start functioning from current academic session (2016-17) in the MBB College premises, official sources said.

Initially, the Varsity would start with five city based Colleges including MBB College. A proposal seeking bifurcation of five city based degree colleges has already been sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The state varsity is scheduled to start its maiden journey from upcoming academic session. Currently, two Varsities- ICFAI and Tripura University are functioning in the state.

It is expected that from year 2016 the new state university’s academic session would commence. MBB is one the oldest college of state Tripura and due to the extensive campus it is chosen as a site to setup the University at MBB College.

The government has chosen 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.