Centre for excellence in Bangalore varsity

The Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, has come forward to establish a Centre for Excellence in microwave antennas and optoelectronics at the Bangalore University’s (BU) Jnana Bharathi campus.

The centre will be a collabaration of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various departments of the BU.

“Rs 300 crore is proposed to be spent to develop the Centre for Excellence. This is a central government project where we will be granting 25 acres of land on lease to the state’s lone Central University. This will help the students of various streams at BU,” confirming the development, BU vice-chancellor Venugopal K R told DH.

Various BU departments such as physics, mathematics, electronics, electronics and communication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering and computer science engineering stand to benefit.

Both students and faculties will have access to better research, practical work and infrastructure. The project will bring down the burden on the university to establish special practical classes and laboratories.

“As this is a joint collabaration of the DRDO and ISRO, students will be industry-ready. Antennas will be useful for communications and optoelectronics will be useful in electrical systems,” Venugopal added.

The proposal for granting land is already approved in the syndicate and is now waiting for government nod. Soon after getting the green-signal, the project will take off. The Centre for Excellence will cater to more than two thousand students in various departments.

“BU is the lone state varsity which is giving more importance to electronics and communications. We have proposed the centre as more departments stand to benefit,” a senior Central University official told DH.