Govt residential colleges to come up in all districts:Minister

The Higher Education department proposed to set up government residential colleges in all districts in Karnataka and ten of them would start functioning from the coming academic year, state Higher Education Minister Basavaraja Rayareddy said today.
The residential colleges would be coming up at a cost of Rs 25 crore each, he said, inaugurating the decennial celebrations of P Dayananda Pai-Satish Pai government first grade college at Car Street here.
He said the government had prepared a master plan to renovate government colleges in the state after conducting a study on their present status.
It had been found that at least 112 of the 412 government colleges needed to be rebuilt, which would incur a cost of Rs 3,500 crore.

Steps were being taken to fill the vacancies in government colleges, he said, adding that 2,160 posts of assistant professors were filled last month.
The government would also distribute laptops to 1,50,000 students belonging to all sections by January next, he said.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would be distributing laptops to 36,000 students belonging to SC-ST sections in the 412 first grade colleges and 81 government polytechnic colleges on November 18, he said.
State Minister for Food and Civil Supplies U T Khader, college patron P Dayananda Pai, J R Lobo MLA and mayor Kavitha Sanil were among those present.