Riyaz Bhat
Srinagar, Oct 09 :
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Monday expressed satisfaction over the construction and other works going on for the establishment of 50 new degree colleges in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), MHA in its annual report 2022-2023 has said, “Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) are functional in Jammu and the work on physical infrastructure is in full swing.”
“Besides, 50 new degree colleges have been opened and construction work is going on at a satisfactory pace,” MHA said.
In the previous annual report, the government had said that it has identified land for the newly sanctioned 50 colleges in JK which are functioning out of makeshift accommodations.
In the report, MHA had said that in order to achieve the objective of access and equity, 50 new Government Degree Colleges in the uncovered areas of Jammu and Kashmir sanctioned during the financial year 2018-19, have been made operational and land has been identified almost at all the places and the colleges have been established in makeshift arrangements.
“New initiatives have been started in the Colleges by providing IT enabled classrooms. Automation of libraries, e-learning and in this regard digital interactive boards, digital indexing of books have been put in place in 54 colleges,” reads the previous report of MHA—(KNO)