[Davangere] UBDT college brought under VTU

Source: The Hindu

‘Longstanding demand of the students and faculty has been fulfilled'

Welcome change: The UBDT College of Engineering in Davangere.

The UBDT College of Engineering here has been brought under Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, said A.H. Shivayogiswamy, Chief Whip in the Legislative Council. He noted that the Government had issued an order to this effect on February 24.

This college, the first ever government engineering college, was under Mysore University in the beginning. Later it was brought under Kuvempu University. After the formation of Davangere University, the college was brought under it.

Talking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr. Shivayogiswamy said that with this, the longstanding demand of students, and teaching and non-teaching staff of the college had been fulfilled. With the inclusion of the college in the VTU, more attention could be expected for the college. Most of the perennial problems such as shortage of teaching staff and inadequate infrastructure would now be solved, he said.

The college at present offers seven undergraduate courses and eight postgraduate courses. There are over 1,800 students in the college.

Revanasiddappa, principal of the college, said degrees obtained by students of the college would hereafter be recognised outside the State as well.

He noted that students pursuing higher education would also be benefitted by this development. Many students of the college too have expressed joy over the inclusion of the UBDT college in the VTU. Pavan, Prasanna Kumar, Panikumar and Sridhar, student leaders of the college, who had led the agitations to bring pressure on the Government, said that students of the college would hereafter get better recognition. Industries, IT and BT companies, which had had reservations over the quality of technical training being given at the college, would now change their mindset.

Source: Times of india

BELGAUM: Prof H Maheshappa, vice-chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) said the State government has sanctioned a grant of Rs 2 crore to the university, for the overall development of Kannada.

He was speaking after felicitating the three Karnataka Rajyotsava awardees from Belgaum district -- Dr R B Nerli (medical), Sangamesh Savadattimath (literature and research) and Malabai Sambrekar (folk), on behalf of the VTU at Jnana Sangam campus here on Tuesday.

Maheshappa said the grants will be utilized to translate technology-related books into Kannada to take knowledge to the doorsteps of the common people. Besides this, a separate publication wing and Kannada experimental wing will be established at VTU, to organize cultural programmes, he said.

Pradhan Gurudatt, president of Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Authority (KBBA) praised the efforts of VTU.

President of the district Kannada Sahitya Academy (KSA)Basavaraj Jagajampi, VTU books publication committee head C K Subbarai were present.

VTU to set up hi-tech valuation centre in Davangere soon

Source: Times of India

DHARWAD: The Visvesvaraya Technological University, which has 186 engineering colleges across the state under its purview will set up a hi-tech valuation centre at Davanagere soon.

The new centre will come up on a sprawling 15-acre land adjoining the national highway near Kunduwad off Davanagere and is allotted to VTU by the Karnatak Housing Board. The centre will be well-equipped with modern facilities like high speed scanner and networking with all the colleges under the VTU.

The use of a high speed scanner will enable quick announcement of results and quick dispatch of marks cards. According to VTU V-C H Maheshappa, nearly 25 lakh answer scripts are evaluated at four centres situated at Bangalore,Mysore, Gulbarga and Belgaum every semester. The examiners will be provided food and accommodation at the valuation centre so that they do not waste time commuting to the centre.

The new centre is expected to be ready in two years, sources said. A teacher's training centre will also be set up on the same campus.