Karnataka government plans to shift UVCE to Jnanabharathi campus
The Hindu
Minister Dr. Sudhakar said, “The previous government has declared UVCE as an autonomous State university on IIT model. But, there are no facilities. We have to develop the university.”
Karnataka government is planning to shift the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) from K.R. Circle campus to Jnanabharathi campus of Bangalore University.
Minister of Higher Education and Technical Education M.C. Sudhakar visited the Jnanabharathi campus on September 14, and verified the available land for the proposed campus of UVCE.
UVCE was established in 1917 by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya. It has been affiliated to Bangalore University since 1964. The State Government declared UVCE an autonomous university in 2021 with the aim of developing it on the model of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and brought a separate UVCE Act 2021 in this regard. The government appointed a Board of Governors to administer the university.
The UVCE provides six engineering courses — Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical, Computer Science, Information Science and Civil Engineering.
The campus, centrally located at K.R. Circle, is spread over 10 acres, and houses the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication, and Computer Science Engineering. The Department of Civil Engineering & Architecture, and post-graduate academic activities are in the Jnanabharathi campus on 50 acres of land where the UVCE also provides hostel facilities to students.
Running academic departments in different locations has become problematic to the administration, and it is affecting the governance of the university too. It is also difficult for students to travel between the hostel and college.
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