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Hamirpur, September 20
Ram Lal Markanda, Technical Education Minister, inaugurated the university data centre and web studio at the new campus of the Himachal Pradesh Technical University (HPTU) here yesterday. He said the HPTU would be made a world-class university.
He said the university would start 21 new courses in 2021, he added.
To promote students
The HPTU will promote students to the next semester, said Markanda
The regular studies could not take place, so the department approved the demand of the university to promote students to the next semester
He announced to build a tribal hostel on the HPTU campus and assured that the demand of the additional staff would soon be fulfilled. He said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur had sanctioned a recurring grant of Rs 10 crore to the university, which would be given every year.
Earlier, MLA Narender Thakur said the HPTU would be given additional land at the earliest. He said the university had flourished after 2017, and the previous government had halted its development.
Professor SP Bansal, Vice Chancellor, said the university had established the data centre and web studio by spending Rs 1.35 crore. He said the data cantre had a capacity to store digital data for the next 50 years. Arun Kumar Kuka, MLA, Nagrota Bagwan, Kulbhushan Chandel, Dean, Academics, and Anupam Thakur, Registrar, HPTU, were also present.
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