The Hindu : V-C takes exception to cut in grants

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Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003

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V-C takes exception to cut in grants

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELLARY Feb. 18. H.J.Lakkappagowda, Vice-Chancellor, Kannada University, Hampi, has taken exception to the cut in grants for higher education by the Government.

Presiding over the inauguration of the Rs.38-lakh hostel for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe women on the university campus on Monday, he suspected that it was a conspiracy of the bureaucracy to keep away scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes and rural people from higher education.

The age-old Varnashrama system had been continued in a different form. The grants being given for higher education, if not enhanced, need not be cut, he said and added that universities were basically research oriented and it would be difficult for them to adopt the payment seat concept.

A.Krishnappa, Minister for Social Welfare, who inaugurated the building, said that 38 per cent of the population were still illiterate even after Nine Five Year Plans.

Lack of vision on the part of administrators had led to such a situation, he lamented.

Education was not given priority in the plans and no steps were being taken to improve educational facilities in rural areas.

Under such circumstances, how could children from rural areas compete with those who studied in convent and other educational institutions? he asked.

He said the conditions in scheduled caste and scheduled tribe hostels were pathetic. The inmates were not even being served with quality food and they were being treated as refugees.

K.C.Kondaiah, K.Niranjan Naidu, MLCs, and Gujjal Jayalakshmi, Hospet MLA, were present. K.V.Narayan, Registrar, welcomed the gathering.

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