Lakshadweep to start community college
The Hindu
Administration to tie up with Pondicherry varsity
After proposing to discontinue postgraduate degree courses and BA (Arabic) now being run by the University of Calicut on the islands, the Lakshadweep administration is learnt to have given nod to start a new community college under Pondicherry University there. According to a letter dated August 19 by A. Anbarasu, adviser to the Administrator, to Gurmeet Singh, Vice Chancellor of the university, the college will start functioning in the ongoing academic year itself.
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