AGARTALA, Aug 8 (TIWN): Tripura’s unemployment toll is going higher and higher and amidst such soaring number of unemployment youths in the state, MBB state university is all set to begin its journey by the middle of this month.

Talking to TIWN correspondent,  Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said that the stage is all set to mark the commencement of MBB state university classes by the middle of this month itself.

Keeping a few lakhs of youth unemployed in the state, MBB state university begins with the admission procedure for the academic session 2016-17.  When there is no scope for employment in the state, state government is busy in promoting about quality education.

Minister Tapan Chakraborty further said that the stage is all set to start to start new state university functioning from August. Kolkata's Jadavpur University Professor Gautam Bose has been selected as the vice chancellor of the new university.

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.

A State University is to be established at the Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) College in State Tripura, aimed at broadening the higher education prospects as informed by official sources.

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.