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AMU VC handing over
the documents to the OSD Malappauram Special Center at his Lodge |
Aligarh: Vice Chancellor Prof. P.K.
Abdul Azis in a brief function held yesterday evening flagged off
the team proceeding to AMU Malappuram Special Centre. He has handed
over all the documents relating to the AMU Malappuram Special Centre
to the designated Officer on Special Duty, Prof. Mohammad Arif.
Addressing the gathering of University officials Prof. Azis said
that it is a historic step in the direction of the expansion of Sir
Syed’s dream and the great legacy of AMU to spread modern education
far and wide. The overwhelming response the University is receiving
from different states of the country bears testimony to the fact
that AMU credentials as a secular and moder n education is well
recognized across the nation. The passion and reverence with which
the AMU team was received and welcomed at Malappuram, Murshidabad
and Kishanganj shows that the initiative has ignited the hopes and
aspirations of the people of the region irrespective of cast, creed
and religion.
Prof. Azis urged the OSD, Prof. Mohammad Arif and Assistant
Registrar Mr. Ataat Husain to work with a sense of diligence and
dedication in carrying forward the great legacy of Sir Syed in the
heartland of Malappuram.
The Government of Kerala which has already acquired and transferred
122 acres of land to AMU in March 2010 and is likely to transfer 150
acres in Phase II by June 2010, had insisted to appoint a Nodal
Officer to make the Malappuram Centre functional in the current
session.
In order to fulfill its commitment the proposal of starting MBA and
BALLB programmes as an initial step was placed before the Academic
Council on June 9, 2010 which was unanimously approved. The
President of India in her capacity as the Visitor of AMU has already
approved the West Bengal and Malappuram centres under Statutes 12(2)
and the Government of India has also allocated Rs. Rs. 25 Crore and
released Rs. 10 Crore for the Malappuram Centre.
In the backdrop of all these positive developments the Vice
Chancellor Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has taken concrete step to depute
a two member team to Malappuram Special Centre. The two officers of
the University will create the necessary facilities with the help of
officers of the State and fully secure the land and facilitate the
launching of two approved courses in temporary buildings. All these
interim measures will continue as per the existing rules of the
University and till the new ordinance were put in place.
The University has already engaged the services of Educational
Consultancy India Ltd. (EDCIL) for preparing detailed Project
Report. It is also under the process of wider consultations both
outside and within the campus to set in motion a foolproof strategy
for establishing world class state-of-the-art education facilities
including a legal framework that protect the stated objectives of
the University.
The efforts are in the anvil to lay a blueprint for establishment of
a highly vibrant and modern centre of higher learning. To meet this
end the University is sending Prof. Mohammad Arif, Department of
Civil Engineering as Officer on Special Duty (Administration) at
Malappuram Special Centre for a period of three months. He will be
exercising general supervision and control over the affairs of the
Centre and work under the directive of the Vice Chancellor.
Similarly Mr. Ataat Husain, Assistant Registrar (Academic) will
perform the work as Assistant Registrar at Malappuram.
Prof. Mohammad Arif is a senior faculty member of Aligarh Muslim
University holding PhD from IIT Roorkee in structural dynamics with
26 years experience of teaching at AMU, Saudi Arabia and Roorkee.
The visiting team is headed by Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel, AMU
Registrar and comprising University Engineer Mr. Firoz Ahmad who
will be back after overseeing initial arrangements while the OSD,
Prof. Mohammad Arif and Assistant Registrar, Mr. Ataat Husain will
stay back at the Malappuram Centre to accelerate the pace of
evolving the centre into an educational hub of substance.
The OSD and his team will be reaching Malappuram today and hence a
great step forward towards making qualitative education available at
a region in Kerala where it is needed most.
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