Cabinet nod for 2 new varsities in Rae Bareli
Keeping in view the coming Assembly elections and the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a slew of proposals, that include setting up of two national universities at Rae Bareli, the home turf of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Other decisions include setting up of a Civil Aviation Authority (that will replace the DGCA), formation of a National Capital Region Transport Corporation, bringing a new law to replace the existing Rent Act 1958 in Delhi and hiking the total family income ceiling under its scholarship scheme for Scheduled Tribe students from `2 lakhs to `4.50 lakhs per annum from this fiscal year.
The country’s first-ever national aviation university will come up in Rae Bareli to impart complete training to pilots, cabin crew and aircraft engineers. Minister of state for information and broadcasting Manish Tewari said: “The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the creation of the university in the name of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as a Central university.”
The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University will be set up on a 26-acre plot at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udaan Academy at Fursetganj. It will have an estimated funding of `202 crores in the 12th Plan period, of which `80 crores has already been sanctioned by the Centre. It will be an autonomous body under the administrative control of the civil aviation ministry. In another first, the Cabinet has also cleared setting up of a university only for women at Rae Bareli. It will focus on research and higher studies and be n Turn to Page 3
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