Six years ago, authorities orchestrated with full fanfare that Kashmir will have a Central University. Once the decision was taken and funds were provided, systematic work for raising the infrastructure should have proceeded in normal course, and in six years that have passed by, at least the vital buildings should have come up. Against this even the preliminary stage of acquiring the land has not been finalized not to speak of raising the structures. The position today is that the university is running in rented rooms at three different places miles away from one another. As there is no concentrated campus, the culture which a university is expected to develop is nowhere in sight. There is no community atmosphere either for the students or for the faculties. What kind of university is this, one fails to understand. If the politicians, who meddled with the affairs of the university, had promised the landowners that in return to giving their land for the university campus they would be given employment to their wards besides the amount of compensation, the promise should have been fulfilled and logjam resolved. The bane of our political system is that politicians feel they have a right to meddle with affairs right or wrong or that without their consent not a leaf will move in their respective constituencies. This mindset needs to change.
The funds allocated for the setting up a Central University in Tulamulla, Ganderbal district should be released without delay and the work of construction should be expedited. The time has gone when the question of raising a university on the marshy land is reopened. It should have been given serious thought when the site was identified during the rule of NC-Congress combine. Political motive behind the selection of the site for the Central University should not have prevailed. But what has actually happened is the well known axiom of the judge, the jury and the hangman combined in one entity.
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