Up by Rs62.16 crore over last year; Rs34 crore for student-centric activities.
The University of Pune (UoP) budget for 2012-13 has shot up to Rs446.99 crore, a good Rs62.16 crore over 2011-12, which was at Rs384.83 crore.
Tabled before the UoP senate by Pandit Vidyasagar, the budget makes provisions of Rs34.06 crore for student-centric activities.
The senate meeting was about to get adjourned for the day on Saturday when the budget was introduced. The meeting was chaired by acting vice-chancellor (VC) Sanjay Chahande and registrar ML Jadhav. Discussion on the budget will take place at the senate meeting on Sunday.
The budget earmarks Rs20 lakh for creating an alumni centre, which was proposed by former vice chancellor RK Shevgaonkar. Another provision Rs39 lakh has been made for the competitive examinations centre. Rs25 lakh has been allocated for organising Avishkar competition, Rs30 lakh for MPhil, PhD research scholarships and Rs2.5 crore for Krantijyoti Savitrimata Phule scholarship programme for women.
The proposed world class sports complex has allocation of Rs2.5 crore and Rs8 crore for students facilitation centre. Another sum of Rs8 crore has been allocated for blind laboratory, Rs1.72 crore for hostel facility, Rs7.36 crore for student welfare scheme and Rs1.42 crore for international students’ centre.
An amount of Rs6.93 crore has been allotted for Jaykar Library maintenance, development and book purchases.
The UoP has allotted Rs1.35 crore for social initiatives. These include FM Radio (Rs45 lakh allocation), adult and continuous education centre (Rs25 lakh), senior citizens centre (Rs10.5 lakh) and Samarth Bharat Abhiyaan (Rs50 lakh).
The budget made provision of Rs84.08 crore for salaries and pensions, HRD training, administrative training of non-teaching staff and housing scheme for class IV and class III staff.
An amount of Rs14.6 crore has been earmarked for excellence programmes for affiliated colleges and institutes and to improve their educational quality and other infrastructure expenses.
Similarly, Rs25.02 crore has been allocated for purchase of various educational tools.
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