Data centre and web studio inaugurated at HPTU

Starp: Built at cost of Rs1.35 crore | Can store digital data for 50 years

Box 1: Facilities for students

— Rs50,000 for students, who would come up with new incubation

— 21 new courses will be started in 2021

— A tribal hostel will be build on the HPTU campus

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, September 19

Ram Lal Markanda, Technical Education Minister, inaugurated the university data centre and web studio at the new campus of the Himachal Pradesh Technical University (HPTU) here today. He said the HPTU would be made a world-class university that would disseminate knowledge to students, not only in the state and the country, but also to students in other areas of the world.

He said the government would provide the assistance to the university to develop infrastructure and there were sufficient funds available for this. The university would start 21 new courses in 2021, he added.

Markanda said students should come forward with new ideas and startup plans. He said innovation would shape the future of the country. He said the university had offered an assistance of Rs 50,000 to each student, who would come up with new incubation, and Rs 3 lakh to the teacher. He said teachers were the architects of the society and they should continue to encourage students for research and development.

He announced to build a tribal hostel on the HPTU campus and assured that the demand of the additional staff would soon be fulfilled. He said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur had sanctioned a recurring grant of Rs 10 crore to the university, which would be given every year.

Earlier, MLA Narender Thakur said the HPTU would be given additional land at the earliest. He said the university had flourished after 2017, and the previous government had halted the development of the university.

Professor SP Bansal, Vice Chancellor, said the university had established the data centre and web studio by spending Rs 1.35 crore. He said the data cantre had a capacity to store digital data for the next 50 years. Arun Kumar Kuka, MLA, Nagrota Bagwan, Kulbhushan Chandel, Dean, Academics, and Anupam Thakur, Registrar, HPTU, were also present.

Another Box: HPTU to promote students to next semester

Hamirpur: The HPTU would promote students to the next semester owing to the Covid pandemic, said Ram Lal Markanda. However, this practice would not be repeated in future, and students would have take and qualify the examinations to appear in the next semester, he clarified. The regular studies could not take place, so the department approved the demand of the university to promote students to the next semester. He said the students and the faculty should understand that this would not be repeated in future in any case.