K'taka wants to set up Gulbarga Central University

Bangalore, Aug 2: The Karnataka Government will approach the Prime Minister tomorrow to press for setting up a Central University in Gulbarga, Home Minister M P Prakash informed the State Assembly today.

Replying to an issue raised by Leader of the Opposition, N Dharam Singh, he said the Government would submit a memorandum in this regard to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

He appealed to the people, who were on a hunger strike to press the demand and to give up their protest.

Earlier, Higher Education Minister, D H Shankaramurthy, said the Government would write a letter to the Centre, urging for setting up a Central University in Gulbarga as there was not a single Central educational institution in the region.

"A recommendation to this effect had also been made by the Nanjundappa Committee report on regional imbalance," he said.

Mr Singh, who raised the issue during a debate on a Bill, said the Centre had a proposal to set up 30 such universities in the country and the State Government could draw the attention of the Union Human Resources Ministry at the earliest to locate one in Gulbarga.

UNI