The decks have been cleared for establishing eight new universities in Karnataka with the State Cabinet on Thursday approving a proposal to amend the Karnataka Universites Act, 2000, according to Higher Education Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan.
The Minister told reporters that the decision would pave the way for establishing new universities in Chamarajanagar, Haveri, Hassan, Kodagu, Koppal, Bagalkot, Bidar, and Mandya. These places already have post-graduation centres which would be developed into universities.
Among these proposed universities Chamarajanagar university would comprise 18 colleges, Hassan would have 36, Haveri 40, Bidar 140, Kodagu 24, Koppal 40, and Bagalkot would have 71 colleges. The Unitary University in Mandya would comprise all the first-grade colleges of the district, Dr. Narayan said.
