Built at a cumulative cost of Rs 56 cr, the two campuses to have all student, teacher residential facilities.
Leh: Chief Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, who is on a three day visit to the Ladakh region, inaugurated the two satellite campuses of University of Kashmir here.
At Kargil, Mehbooba was informed that the satellite campus, built at a cost of Rs. 29 crore, would have a student intake capacity of 150, initially in the subjects of IT, Arabic and Botany.
In her brief interaction with the students, Mehbooba announced that bus service would be provided to ferry students from their areas to the satellite campus. She also directed introduction of subjects like Persian, Education and some skill development courses in view of their demand from the job market.
She also directed setting up of a solar power plant, V-Sat and a DG set to meet the uninterrupted power supply to the campus. She said the campus would be made as active as possible.
Later, she visited Leh where she also inaugurated the Leh satellite campus of the Kashmir University at Phyang.
Built at a cost of Rs. 27.40 crore, the Leh satellite campus is spread over an area of 819 kanals of land. It has git separate buildings for classrooms, hostels, administration, arts and science streams.
The Chief Minister directed starting undergraduate courses at the campus which have a good demand from the job market besides courses on regional development, ethnography, geology etc. She also directed the Deputy Commissioner to work out a permanent water supply source to the campus.
On her visit to Leh, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti felicitated the young team of mountaineers who scaled Mount Everest last year.
Belonging to Leh and adjoining areas these young intrepids went to an expedition to the world’s highest peak and scaled it on May 21, 2016.
