Deputy Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday promised the Mysore University that the government will extend all co-operation for the development of the varsity.
He was speaking at the ‘Employees Day’ function organised by the Mysore University Non-teaching Employees Association (MUNEA), in the city. The Deputy CM also said that all necessary financial aid will be given to the university. An amount of Rs 50 lakh had been provided for the encyclopedia and other related work in the Budget. The government will also extend help for the setting up of a science centre.
Yediyurappa said that he was in favour of converting Mysore university into a Central university, since it was the sixth oldest varsity in the country and finds a place among the top ten.
The Deputy CM lauded the practice in the university of settling all dues to retired employees on the day of their retirement itself. He noted that the coalition government had laid more stress on education, and the opening of five new medical colleges and five new engineering colleges this year was a testimony to it.
 Yediyurappa said that the State stood first in financial management and it had won accolades for this from the Planning Commission and the Reserve Bank of India. The State’s budget size had gone up from Rs 36,000 crore to Rs 51,000 crore after
the coalition government came to power.
Earlier, MUNEA president M Vishakanta, thanked the government for implementing the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission. He also made a case before the DyCM for setting up the Central varsity in Mysore itself, in the light of the plea that it must come up in Gulbarga.
Varsity Registrar B J Hosmath, appealed to the DyCM to release Rs 1.5 crore that the varsity has to settle in a case of pay discrimination, as ordered by the court.
Varsity Registrar (Examination) A B Ibrahim and others were present on the occasion.