Our Correspondent
Diphu, Aug. 4 (EMN): Member of Parliament, Horensing Bey met Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Education, Government of India at New Delhi on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum regarding the proposed upgradation of Assam University at Diphu campus to full-fledged Central University.
The project is a part of Tripartite Memorandum of Settlement signed between the Central government, Assam government and UPDS (the organisations spearheading the movement of Assam hill state) on November 25, 2011.
Bey urged the minister to fast track the process of upgradation of Assam University at Diphu Campus and ‘the long standing commitment of the Union Govt. to the hill tribes of Assam will be fulfilled with his kind blessings’.
Meantime, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Chief Executive Member Tuliram Ronghang also expressed his appreciation statting, ‘My appreciation to Hon'ble MP Horensing Bey for apprising the Hon'ble Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan the need for immediate upgradation of Assam University Diphu Campus to a full fledged Central University.’