Jamshedpur, May 23: Kolhan University (KU) will soon have research related facilities at its establishment. The teachers and students will also be able to do study weather related research. For this the University is planning to set up Advance Research Centre, which will also include an observatory.
Once the construction of the administrative block and B. Ed. building is completed, works on the Advance Research Centre will ne planned out. However, the university was allotted Rs 50 lakh for setting up the advance research centre last year. Following which KU prepared a DPR for the advance research centre and sent the proposal to the state government.
Once the university gets nod from the state government, the construction work will start. According to sources at the University, there are full possibilities that construction work for the Advance Research Centre might start this year (2016).
Reportedly, once the advance research centre is set up, all the research related work will be carried out in the university itself. For which a laboratory with technological advanced equipment will be there for all the subjects including physics, chemistry, and science. For geography PG department, a observatory will be set up where apart from getting weather related information, students and researchers can carry out related study.
�The administrative block and PG building of the university is almost ready and now we have sent DPR for approval to the state government for the construction of Advance Research Centre. The time we get the state government’s nod, the construction work will start,� said Dr. RPP Singh, vice-chancellor of Kolhan University.
According to reports, in terms of digitalization, Kolhan University is ahead of other universities of Jharkhand. In the last two years, KU has carried out online registration, admission, results declared through SMS and online and other works in the digital platform, which is yet to be achieved by the other universities of the state.
Now the university is offering digital locker facilities along with online verification of the certificates to the students. For online verification, an employer, company or organization will not have to fill application but just have to visit the website of the university and can verify the certificates on their own.