Foundation of WB's first engineering univ in pvt sector laid

The new university, to come up on 16 lakh square metre at Salt Lake, will offer courses in B Tech, M Tech, Ph D, BCA, MCA, BDA, MSc (in all subjects), besides MA (in applied subjects), Techno India group chairman G Roychowdhury said.

In an apparent rebuttal of CPI(M) criticism of encouraging private education, Banerjee said, "Our previous friendly government passed a bill in the assembly after late Dhirubhai Ambani. But nothing progressed on setting up the university.

"After we came to power, we brought a bill to set up this engineering university in the private sector by Techno India group," she said.

The group chairman said the state government asked it to provide free education to 10 per cent students and half free to five per cent which was accepted.

Roychowdhury said the group had plans to set up a medical college and hospital at Joka in the southern fringe of the city in the near future.