Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KD/MB)

Mangalore, May 6: The University College - formerly the Government College - here is set to get a thorough facelift if the ambitious proposal to place the college with the other colleges in the city materializes.

To begin with, the Centre for Excellence proposed to be raised at a cost of Rs 3 crore has been envisaged, through which a number of frontline courses including management and information technology will be introduced. The courses will help the poor students to acquire a degree at an affordable cost.

According to the press release from the University, it is planned to involve the alumni as stakeholders and participants in the project. At the same time the Old Students Association of the college will be renamed as the University College Mangalore Alumni Association (UC-MAA).

A meeting of the alumni will be held in the Ravindra Kala Bhavan on Sunday May 6 at 4.pm, in which Administrative Reforms Commission chairman M Veerappa Moily will take part. The college has requested all the old students to be present and to enroll themselves as members of the UC-MAA.

To give a facelift to the college, a few people have come forward to donate some funds. Prominent builder and an alumnus, Dayanand Pai, has promised to give Rs 25 lac and many other alumni have come forward to donate for the collage development. 

UC-MAA will construct a building, with an upgradation of the infrastructure for the new courses planned by the University College.