Mysore University has received a special grant of Rs 100 crore, which it plans to spend on upgrading facilities and introducing e-administration. The 94-year-old university has created a Vision 2025 document with the objective of making it to the top ten universities in the country and top 150 in the world in the next few years.
The document envisages creating environment suitable for world-class education and research, creation of infrastructure and facilities and the use of e-administration in management with emphasis on accountability and transparency. It also recommends adoption of modern pattern of examinations and evaluation, computerisation of all records and proposes a facility allowing students to write examination from anywhere.
Private sector participation, greater focus on IT training, relaunching of correspondence courses and setting up community radio stations are among the recommendations in the Vision document. Reaching out to rural students, bringing the youth of the backward areas into the education network and education of girls have also been emphasised.
The University has set up a core committee to be guided by vice-chancellor VG Talwar and Karnataka State Higher Education Council vice-chairman IM Savadatti, who also headed the Vision 2025 document drafting committee, to execute the Vision document.
