Excelsior Correspondent
GANDERBAL, Nov 11: The 6th meeting of the Planning and Monitoring Board (PMB) and the 27th meeting of the University Building Committee (UBC) of the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) were held at Tulmulla Campus of the varsity today with Vice Chancellor Prof Mehraj ud Din Mir in chair.
In both the meetings, the participants discussed various issues threadbare and took decisions on different matters pertaining to academics and construction.
Registrar, Prof M Afzal Zargar; Controller of Examinations, Prof Parveen Pandit; Finance Officer, Prof Fayaz A Nikka; Director Research and Development, Prof G M Bhat; Director, MPRC, Prof Shahid Rasool; Deans of Schools, Heads and Coordinators of different departments, senior functionaries from the district and Union Territory administration, experts from diverse fields, and officials of the university were also present during both the meetings.
Addressing the participants, Vice Chancellor, Prof Mehraj ud Din Mir said that in spite of the country wide lockdown due to outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, the varsity completed the syllabi of the students, pursuing various programmes in the CUK, by continuously conducting online classes, distributing the teaching learning material and also has a distinction of holding offline End Semester Examinations recently. He said that keeping in view the success of the programmes launched by the university, the varsity is launching more programmes including Masters in Social Work, M A Kashmiri, B PEd and B A Honours in Urdu from the academic session. He further said the university plans to establish an information centre for the visually impaired library users, and has also received proposals from various departments for upgradation and creation of new facilities for the students.
Prof Mehraj ud Din Mir, however, regretted that the university hasn’t been able to make any significant progress on the infrastructure front. “The executing agencies for the project at Tulmulla have failed to stick to the deadlines causing inordinate delays in the construction of permanent structures,” he said, adding that the low load bearing capacity of the land and subsequent increase in the foundation cost has added to the woes. Vice Chancellor said the district administration has recently identified an additional 100 kanals of land for the acquisition of which the varsity officials are in contact with the administration.
Earlier, Registrar, Prof M Afzal Zargar took up agenda items in both the meetings.
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