The Commission received a total of 60 proposals for colleges applying to
get the heritage tag. Out of the 60 proposals, the selection committee approved
the granting of the status to 19. These colleges can use special grants
received by them for conservation work of the campus and for specialised
courses related to heritage, officials in the UGC said.
The list of colleges who have been granted the status include St
Xavier's College, Mumbai; CMS College Kottayam; St Joseph College, Trichy;
Khalsa College, Amritsar; St Bede?s College, Shimla, Christ Church College in
Kanpur, Old Agra College, Agra; Meerut College, Meerut and Langat Singh College
in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, Govt.Brennan College, Kerala; University College in
Mangalore, Cotton College in Guwahati, Midnapore college in West Bengal, Govt
Medical Science in Jabalpur, Deccan Education Society's Fergusson College in
Pune, Hislop college in Nagpur, Govt. Gandhi Memorial Science College in Jammu,
Kanya Mahavidyalya in Jalandhar and St Xavier's College in Kolkata.
- Cotton
College of Guwahati has received maximum grants of INR 4.35 crore for
conservation of its heritage building.
- Langat
Singh College, has received INR 15 lakh financial aid from the UGC for
developing digital library.
- Meerut
College which was established in the year 1892 has been granted INR 1.34
crore for its revamp. The funds would be utilised for renovation of Art
Gallery, Geological Museum and initiating projects for identification of
heritage locations in nearby areas. Former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan
Singh and former HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi are the eminent alumni
of this college.
Knowledge is Power, and the country who knows
how to wield it to its advantage, will always be one generation ahead of its
time. The govt of India is realizing this, which directly makes way for
infusion of fresh funds into the development and restoration of olden colleges.
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