Kolkata, Jul 7: With the passage of a bill to set up three new universities, including a private one, in the state assembly, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the education sector has now been thrown open to private universities.
“The road is now open for private sector universities to impart education,” she wrote on her Facebook page while describing the day as “historic” as the legislative assembly has passed bills for setting up of three new universities in the state.
Under the bill, a private university, Techno India University, will be set up with campus at Salt Lake and Joka on the outskirts of the city.
“The three new universities will provide ample opportunities for the young generation to avail management, engineering and professional education in the state, instead of migrating to other states,” she said.
The state-aided universities include one at Cooch Behar district while another has been named Kazi Nazrul University which would come up at Asansol, close to the birth place of the rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
On the passage of another bill to provide 17 per cent reservation for Backward Classes and SC/ST, she said “it would bring a new era in the development and upliftment of Muslim brothers and sisters”.
“A policy decision has also been taken to provide similar facilities for them in education,” she added.
Pointing out that the assembly has also cleared the West Bengal Panchayat Election Bill, 2012, which provides 50 per cent reservation for women, in elections, she said “we salute the women and stand for our solidarity with the mothers and sisters of Bengal”.
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