Karnataka Cabinet Approves Bill Granting University Status to 6 Institutions-Education News

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, during a cabinet meeting on Monday, decided to adopt the bill designating six institutions in the state as universities.

The meeting was being held by Bommai in Belagavi’s Suvarna Soudha. The bill, however, still needs to be presented in the Belagavi Assembly session. Four of the six institutions are located in Bengaluru, and one each is located in Davengere and Ballari. T John University, Karnataka State Vokkaligara Sangha University, Sapthagiri University, Acharya University, G M University, Davanagere, and Kishkinda University, Ballari are the universities on the list.

The state will now have 30 private universities after the addition of these six. The overall number of state universities is 41, with 11 regarded to be universities. The Karnataka State Universities Act, 2000 (Karnataka Act 29 of 2001) was amended earlier in September by a bill enacted by the state’s legislative assembly, which created new universities in several district headquarters, including Bidar University, Haveri University, Kodagu University, Koppal University, Bagalkot University, Chamarajanagar University, Hassan University and Mandya University. Mangalore University is anticipated to lose 24 undergraduate colleges as a result of the establishment of a new university in Kodagu

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