Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said while the state government was setting up institutes and medical universities, the private sector should also come forward with initiatives keeping in view the number of students.
"While it has been a continuous endeavour of the government to set up colleges and medical university from its own budget and resources. We have opened several universities, including medical ones.
"Even as the government is setting up universities, private sector should also come forward keeping in view number of students pursuing higher education," Akhilesh said after laying the foundation stone of Greater Noida campus of Bennett University being set up by Times Group.
The CM said when youths and students need education, but when they do not get job at the right time, we cannot use their will power to work for the progress of the country and society.
Stressing on the requirement of good education and jobs, the CM said if these two factors are missing we cannot utilise the youth power for the progress of the country and society.
"When it's becoming a global world, I believe that if youths get international level education here, there will no other happier persons than Samajwadi," he said.
Expressing gratitude towards Times Group Managing Director Vineet Jain for selecting Greater Noida to open the university, Akhilesh said, "I can assure him that the government will extend all possible support and help so that a grand university takes shape."
The chief minister, on the occasion, also congratulated state officers for speeding up the process right from land allocation to foundation laying.
"I don't think that any one has done this before," he said, adding, if the inaugural ceremony of the university was held as per schedule then he himself would go to Noida and "break the superstition" of not going there for any launch programme.
Akhilesh said that often people refer of Northern capital Region (NCR), which includes Delhi-Gurgaon-Noida, instead of Noida on their visiting cards, but when such a large university would come up here people would automatically know that it is in Uttar Pradesh.
Speaking on the occasion, Jain said that a strategic foray was being made in higher education by setting up of a "high quality, research oriented university."
The MD said that the university, which would offer a number of courses, would start functioning from July 2016 with a strength of over 15,000 students.
"The university will have 1000 faculty members to ensure the best teaching methodologies on the campus," he said.
Jain said that the University would prepare students in a manner that they were career and life ready.
He said that the key figure was the Bennett university it would have advisory partnership with top universities in the state.
