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PANAJI
In the budgetary allocation for Education, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said in the Assembly that from the academic year 2020-2021, the Goa Architecture College would offer two new Masters programmes : M Arch (Urban Design) and M Arch (Sustainable Habitat). A post-graduate degree in Art too will be offered at the Goa College of Art, Sawant said.
These are among several initiatives in the field of education that the Sawant-led government has proposed for the upcoming financial year.
Meanwhile, Minister for Agriculture and deputy CM Chandrakant Kavalekar has proven his mettle by doing the groundwork for the setting up of a University for Organic Agriculture which Sawant announced in the Budget.
Set to eventually go on stream in a five-year period, the University will also have around 10,000 sqm of land under 100 per-cent organic farming practices. Up to Rs 400 crores, mostly availed through existing Central government schemes for agricultural education will be spent on setting up the university, according to Kavlekar.
Meanwhile, Sawant said he also planned to start an M Phil in Clinical Psychology from the next academic year, although the budgetary provision for this has been made under the ‘Health’ category. The CM said that as far as the IIT-Goa campus was concerned, work on the campus had already commenced at Sattari and land totally admeasuring 12.43 lakh square metres in Melauli, Sattari is being transferred to the institution. In continuation of the idea of attracting private educational institutions in the State, and as announced earlier by Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, Sawant proposed the development of the South Goa District Hospital as a Medical College on the PPP model. He also proposed to construct a hostel to accommodate Post-Graduate dental students of Goa Dental College and Hospital.
As far as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducted competitive examinations is concerned, the government will set up a “study and information centre” to help Goan youth crack them.
Another initiative announced by Sawant in his budget proposals is a programme of industrial internship for the teaching community.
