Pvt colleges a step closer to forming cluster univs

The state government has proposed major amendments to the Maharashtra Public Universities Act (MPUA), 2016, allowing private colleges across district boundaries to form cluster universities.

- Niraj Pandit

MUMBAI:

A bill to this effect was tabled in the assembly on December 16, the first day of the winter session of the state legislature. The bill will be taken up for discussion in the next session of the assembly, following which it will be introduced in the legislative council.

Earlier, only government-aided colleges managed by a single trust or society and located within the same district were allowed to form cluster universities. An ordinance issued in October this year removed the requirement of government-aided colleges as mandatory constituents of a cluster university, though they had to be located in the same district.