Panel to study viability of setting up varsity in Chamarajanagar

It may be set up on the PG campus of University of Mysore in the district

Chamarajnagar, one of the backward districts in the State, may get a university of its own as the State government has constituted an expert committee to look into the possibility of establishing a full-fledged university on the PG campus of University of Mysore (UoM) in the district. Chamarajanagar district currently comes under the jurisdiction of University of Mysore and the PG campus is spread over 55 acres. The first grade colleges – government and private – are affiliated to the UoM. Vice-Chancellor G. Hemantha Kumar, who heads the committee, told The Hindu that he had received the government order for studying the feasibility of setting up a university and added that he and the members would soon be starting the work.