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Merging new universities, not closing them: DK Shivakumar

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, on Thursday, explained that the new universities would be merged with old ones, and not shut down completely. Shivakumar’s statement came about three weeks after it was announced that nine out of the ten universities established in the state during the previous BJP government’s tenure would be shut down. There is a lot of difference between students getting a degree from a reputed university like Mysore University and from a newly set-up Mandya or Chamarajnagar university,” Shivakumar said. He also stated that teachers were reluctant to work at these new universities, questioning whether simply appointing a Vice-Chancellor and a Registrar truly made an institution a university.

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