JNU gets Rs 450 crore financial aid from Higher Education Funding Agency to construct new academic buildings

JNU has received financial assistance of Rs 455.02 crore from the Government of India's Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) for construction of new academic buildings, hostels and research centres. 

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has secured financial assistance of Rs 455.02 crore from the Government of India's Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) for construction of new academic buildings, hostels and research centres. The funds will be used for the establishment of Advanced Animal Research Facility, which will be used to carry out the research on the communicable, non-communicable and rare diseases including infectious agents such as novel coronavirus, the JNU Vice-chancellor M Jagdesh Kumar said. Besides, the funds will also be used for the installation of an integrated and unified Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, that will ensure that all academic and administrative processes are conducted online means in an integrated manner, Registrar Pramod Kumar said.

This will make all the processes in the university efficient and time-bound, he added. Vice-chancellor Kumar also said the funds allotted by the Human Resource Development Ministry’s HEFA shall be utilised for the construction of student hostels and academic buildings for the School of Engineering and Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management & Entrepreneurship, Trans-Disciplinary Academic Research, Advanced Animal Research Facility, Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Incubation Centre for start-up companies, Special Centre for e-Learning and Lecture Hall Complex.

Approximately, 1.3 lakh candidates apply for JNU entrance examination every year, but only about 2,000 get admission, the VC said. The Special Centre for e-learning shall impart education by offering online degree programmes to many such students who could not be admitted in the JNU, he added.

"This is also in tune with the objectives of the National Education Policy (NEP) of increasing the gross enrolment ratio. The new Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (AIRF) and Advanced Animal Research Facility shall increase the research capability of the university and also be made available for other institutions of the country as national facility,” he said.

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