Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 20: Government today rechristened Jammu Cluster University as Tawi Cluster University and the renaming was announced by the Minister for Education and Pro Chancellor of the Varsity, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari at the inaugural function of varsity’s maiden 4-day cultural festival-cum-contest.
The mega event-Yuv Tarang and the renaming coincides with the completion of one-year functioning of the varsity established under provisio of Srinagar and Jammu Cluster University Act 2016 under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme, RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan) with five city colleges as its constituents.
Minister for Education and Pro Chancellor of the Varsity Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari was chief guest and Minister of State for Education Priya Sethi was guest of honour at the inaugural event, also attended by a galaxy of academia, senior faculty members and a large number of students of constituent colleges.
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Around four hundred entries have been received from the students to participate in the contests which would include dance, music, theatre in performing-art category, painting and other contests in fine arts category, besides easy, poetry and prose writing competitions under literary category.
At the outset, Vice-Chancellor Prof Anju Bhasin presented the report card on the one-year functioning of the university.
In his inaugural address, Altaf Bukhari recounted the efforts of former Chief Minister, late Mufti Mohammad Syed towards realizing the establishment of the twin Cluster Universities in Jammu and Srinagar with the primary aim of making the State a hub of quality higher education. He also gave full credit to his predecessor and former Education Minister Naeem Akhtar, vice- chancellor and her team towards the establishment of the University. “It is a proud moment for me to see this institution progressing in leaps and bounds in one year of its existence which also coincides with the period since I took over as Education Minister” Altaf Bukhari said and announced that the varsity form this day will be known as Tawi Cluster University.
In her address, Minister for Education, Culture Priya Sethi congratulated the university for giving due place to culture in the scheme of things. “I have strong craving and attachment towards culture and its promotion because it represents the fragrance of the society and the nation we live in”, she said.
Hailing academic and other achievements of the varsity, she urged the management to introduce innovative courses to produce young, progressive entrepreneurs, researchers in linguistics and other fields.
Dr Twinkle Suri, DSW Cluj gave a detail of the events to be organised in all the five constituent colleges. The programme was organised under the guidance of Prof Poonam Dhawan, Dean Academics Affair and Registrar Dr Jatinder Khajuria.
The programme was compered by Dr. Sandhya Bharadwaj, Seerat & Manya and the cultural fest is being coordinated by Prof. Aekta Gupta, Prof. Renu Nanda, Prof. Baljinder Kour, Prof. Sandhya Sankhya and Prof. Savita Jamwal of the five constituent colleges.
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