<p>The five-year-old university has a strength of nearly 250 students for various courses at present. The proposed Hunsur campus, likely to take shape in the next three years, will initially offer only post-graduate degrees. <br /><br />"We have identified 40 acres in Hunsur near Mysore for the campus which is the first to be set up outside Delhi. We will soon formally request the Government to provide us land," TERI, Bangalore, Director P R Dasgupta told reporters on Monday.<br /><br />He was speaking after the government and TERI signed an MoU for co-operation in the field of sustainable energy, besides setting up the campus. <br /><br />TERI Director General and environmentalist R K Pachauri said the campus will have world class facility in higher learning, exclusively, for doctoral and masters degree programmes. The proposed university will strive to impart training in Energy Studies, Biosciences, Environmental Studies and Public Policy.<br /><br />Dasgupta said the proposed Hunsur campus will be self-sustainable and ensure that faculty stay put on the campus which is 35 km from Mysore City. <br /><br />Campaign<br /><br />The Government and TERI signed an agreement on implementing Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) campaign, which envisages providing solar lantern technology in areas deprived of electricity and exploring the possibility of setting up an integrated energy technology park using solar power generation technologies on a large-scale. <br /><br />TERI will also help the government in providing solar and solar-wind hybrid power-charged UPS / batteries in the government high schools and gram panchayats in rural areas, where power supply from the grid is very erratic.<br /><br />Altogether, the MoU has listed 11 areas of co-operation over the next three years. <br />Pachauri, who is also the Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the focus of the entire world is now on Karnataka and Bangalore. <br /><br />“Karnataka has now become the international resource centre. We (TERI) want to harness this resource,” he said.</p>
<p>The five-year-old university has a strength of nearly 250 students for various courses at present. The proposed Hunsur campus, likely to take shape in the next three years, will initially offer only post-graduate degrees. <br /><br />"We have identified 40 acres in Hunsur near Mysore for the campus which is the first to be set up outside Delhi. We will soon formally request the Government to provide us land," TERI, Bangalore, Director P R Dasgupta told reporters on Monday.<br /><br />He was speaking after the government and TERI signed an MoU for co-operation in the field of sustainable energy, besides setting up the campus. <br /><br />TERI Director General and environmentalist R K Pachauri said the campus will have world class facility in higher learning, exclusively, for doctoral and masters degree programmes. The proposed university will strive to impart training in Energy Studies, Biosciences, Environmental Studies and Public Policy.<br /><br />Dasgupta said the proposed Hunsur campus will be self-sustainable and ensure that faculty stay put on the campus which is 35 km from Mysore City. <br /><br />Campaign<br /><br />The Government and TERI signed an agreement on implementing Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) campaign, which envisages providing solar lantern technology in areas deprived of electricity and exploring the possibility of setting up an integrated energy technology park using solar power generation technologies on a large-scale. <br /><br />TERI will also help the government in providing solar and solar-wind hybrid power-charged UPS / batteries in the government high schools and gram panchayats in rural areas, where power supply from the grid is very erratic.<br /><br />Altogether, the MoU has listed 11 areas of co-operation over the next three years. <br />Pachauri, who is also the Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the focus of the entire world is now on Karnataka and Bangalore. <br /><br />“Karnataka has now become the international resource centre. We (TERI) want to harness this resource,” he said.</p>
