Saturday, May 13, 2006

Seeds sown for Law University in Hubli

Seeds sown for Law University in Hubli
Vijay Times Epaper


52-acre KSRP land identified to set up campus

Bangalore: Legal education in the State is expected to reach new heights with the setting up of Karnataka Kannoonu Vishwavidyalaya. The first law varsity of the S tate would take its birth in a month if the State Go vernment acts on the r eport submitted b y university special officer J S P atil. Accor ding to the r eport available with Vi jay T imes, the university is proposed to be set up at a cost of Rs 4 2 cror e . All the 72 law colleges affiliated to various universities would become a part of the proposed university . A 52acr e KSRP land has been identified for setting up of the university campus in H ubli.

The university would have 30 centr es of e xcellence including intellectual property rights, rehabilitation, juvenile delin quency , women rights and child rights . For the first time , the university would offer certificate and diploma courses in law besides distance education. It would continue to offer both thr ee-year and five-year LLB courses .

The university also proposes to offer LLB ( honours ) course at Hubli campus with an intake of 60. A three-month long bridge course would be offered for enriching written and spoken English at beginning of each academic year .

The report also mentions that environment science, general science, psychology , criminology and commer ce and management can also be taught with legal education.

Website to boost investors’ meet

Website to boost investors’ meet
Vijay Times Epaper

Hubli: A website, www.destinationhubli.in, would be launched soon to facilitate the investors’ meet to be held here on May 20. This would provide full information about Hubli as the destination for investments in Information Technology and ITeS sector.

The event will be organised by the Consortium of District Administration along with Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, KEONICS and IT-Department with the cooperation of the State government. Local engineering colleges and BIC Society, a society constituted for marketing Hubli-Dharwad in IT space, have shown special interest in the event.

In a press release, KCCI IT Committee chairman Santosh Huralikoppi said that the State government and CM Kumaraswamy have shown interest in making the meet a success by attracting potential investments in the Information Technology, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Biotechnology spaces.

More than 150 delegates from various large, medium and small companies have been invited and there have been positive responses from a few of them. Special arrangements for travel and stay have been made for the delegates.

Santosh said that the incentives announced by the Chief Minister Kumaraswamy for Hubli IT Park have started showing positive results. Neilsoft, a Pune based company with over 500 employees, has taken over a Hubli based company and is starting its operations in IT Park with 10,000 square feet space. Local entrepreneurs and industrialists, who were trying to diversify into IT and BPO space, were looking forward for investors meet, the release added.