The government first grade college for women is all set to get a new building of its own at last. Two acres of land has been identified for the purpose near Karnangeri in the taluk.
The state government gave approval for the establishment of the college during 2014-15. At that time, the institution had no building of its own and hence has been functioning from “Yuva Bhavana” of the District Youth Federation.
The government had released Rs 2 crore for the purpose of constructing a building for the college. Initially, it was rumoured that the women’s college would come up near the pre-university college in the town. But, there were no such plans. On the other hand, the Youth Federation had sought the college to vacate the building. It had even approached the deputy commissioner in this regard. In the absence of any other alternative building, the college authorities too were in a fix. Deputy Commissioner Richard Vincent D’Souza had directed the officials to identify a suitable location for constructing a building for the state-run institution.
D J Javarappa, Head of the Commerce Department at the college, said that the college had been functioning from Yuva Bhavan for the past four years. He hoped that the new building would be ready in around two years. “At present, we have 41 students in arts stream and 95 in commerce. With the college getting its own building, the admission too will go up,” he said.
However, the Youth Federation is peeved at the “delay” in handing over Yuva Bhavan back to it. President of the federation, B Joyappa, said that several activities of the federation had been affected due to non-availability of a suitable accommodation. “We have requested the college authorities several times for vacating the building and there is no positive response till now. We will stage a dharna in front of the deputy commissioner’s office if the building is not handed over to us by December 6,” he said.
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / DH News Service / Madikeri – December 04th, 2017
