The Haryana Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today approved a Bill for setting up a state university at Gurugram.

The main campus of the state university will be at village Kankarola located at a distance of about 15 km from Gurugram.

“There is a huge scope and the new university will open new vistas, horizons and opportunities of higher education for the students of the region in particular, and the state, in general,” Government said.

Why This University?

There is need to double the number of educational institutions by 2020 to accommodate the unprecedented growth of students in higher education, and also to achieve 30 percent gross enrollment ratio,
 

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