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The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has secured financial assistance of Rs 496 crores from the Centre’s Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) for the construction of nearly 10 projects within the campus. The funds were sanctioned in the year 2023, as per varsity officials.
JNU Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dulipudi Pandit confirmed that the University will be getting a new building for its School of Engineering and a Lecture Hall Complex amongst several other upcoming projects on the campus. Besides, funds will also be used for setting up a complex — a trans-disciplinary research incubation centre for students from different schools at JNU to come together in one place.
The varsity already has the Atal Incubation Centre Jawaharlal Nehru University Foundation for Innovation in place under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, which is the government of India’s flagship initiative to “promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country and was set up in 2016.”
Speaking to The Indian Express, Satish Chandra Garkoti, Rector-I at JNU said, “Research and academics will be improved by many folds at JNU and new programmes can also be added as there will be more space now in the campus.”
He added that the School of Engineering has attained its clearances and tendering has already started and the new building will be in place tentatively in the next two years. A part of the building will also be shared by students studying management.
Additionally, two hostels, one for those pursuing Engineering and the other for Management students, are also yet to come up on the University campus. “A special centre for E-learning centre for students, who could not manage to physically attend the university, but are interested in pursuing courses from the varsity is also going to be constructed. This building will have special studios for professors to impart quality teaching of lessons online,” Garkoti said.
Earlier in 2020, JNU had got the approval of Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA), MHRD for the funding of Rs 455.02 crore for the “construction of new academic buildings, hostels, research centres and installation of integrated and unified Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system”.
Former Registrar Pramod Kumar, in a statement, said various new Schools and Special Centres had been established in JNU recently and there was an “urgent need of hostel facilities to accommodate students and researchers of these new schools/centres.” “JNU has started the Atal Incubation Centre and three companies are already incubating. For this purpose, it has already registered the incubation centre as a section 8 company and aspires to incubate 100 companies, which requires state-of-the-art infrastructure,” Kumar added.
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