Cabinet nod for law university in Tarn Taran

 Chandigarh, August 25

The Punjab cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to set up a law university in the border district of Tarn Taran to commemorate the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Teg Bahadur, officials said here.

The Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, approved the ‘Sri Guru Teg Bahadur State University of Law Bill – 2020’ for presentation in the forthcoming session of the state Assembly on August 28, they said.

The draft Bill, prepared by the Higher Education Department, seeks “to establish and incorporate a state university for the development and advancement of legal education and for the purposes of imparting specialised and systematic instruction, training and research in the field of law and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto”, an official statement said.

The cabinet also approved the release of a total of Rs 75.75 crore recurring grant for 11 more constituent colleges at Rs 1.5 crore per college per annum from the year 2016-17 to 2020-21.

With this, the total number of colleges to which the state government is paying recurring grants has gone up to 30, the statement said.

The grant would help in timely release of salaries to teachers, thus motivating them to continue imparting better quality education to the students, it added. — PTI