A new university in Gurgaon to recruit 20,000 teachers: Haryana Govt

The Haryana government is gearing up to set up a new university in Gurgaon. Replying to a question in the ongoing monsoon session of the Assembly, Minister for Education Ram Bilas Sharma said that the work for the university will commence within the current financial year.

Sharma said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had announced at a public meeting in Kakrola village in April that a university would be set up. The Kakrola panchayat has passed a resolution to transfer land, measuring 398 kanal and three marlas for the university.

He also assured the House that engineering and B Ed colleges affiliated to Kurukshetra University would not be shifted to any other university.

The Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma also said that 20,000 teachers will soon be recruited in Haryana as he asserted that the government was "laying special emphasis" on the quality of education.

Talking to mediapersons here, Sharma said the recruitments would be made as part of the steps the state government was taking to improve the standard of education in Haryana. He said the reforms were being brought in both curriculum as well as the state's education system. "Shlokas from the Bhagvad Gita have been incorporated in the curriculum to inculcate moral values in school students," said Sharma.

"Reforms are also being introduced in higher education so that college students may become self-reliant after completing their studies," he added.