Academic Council of Mangalore University approves autonomous status to Canara College

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P.L. Dharma, Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, presiding implicit    the Academic Council gathering  astatine  the assemblage   successful  Mangalagangotri connected  Thursday.

P.L. Dharma, Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, presiding implicit the Academic Council gathering astatine the assemblage successful Mangalagangotri connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

The Academic Council of Mangalore University successful its gathering connected Thursday approved a connection to assistance autonomy to Canara College, an affiliated assemblage of the university, successful Mangaluru.

Earlier, a committee of the assemblage reviewed and submitted a study successful enactment of granting autonomy to the assemblage from 2025-26 to 2035-36.

Now the connection of granting autonomy to the assemblage volition beryllium placed earlier the Syndicate, the highest determination making assemblage of the university, for its approval. Later, it volition beryllium sent to the State authorities for approval. If the authorities approved the proposal, the assemblage volition get the autonomous status.

It volition beryllium the 11th assemblage of the university, if it gets the autonomous status.

Other colleges, which were granted autonomy earlier were Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College, Ujire; School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya; St. Aloysius College, St. Agnes College and St. Ann’s College -- each successful Mangaluru; Alva’s College, Moodbidri; Poornaprajna College and MGM College, some successful Udupi; Vivekananda College of Arts, Science and Commerce and St. Philomena College, some successful Puttur.

Of them St. Aloysius College has present emerged arsenic a Deemed to beryllium University.

The Mangalore University presently has 160 affiliated colleges.

Academic calendar postponed

The Vice-Chancellor of the assemblage P.L. Dharma, who presided implicit the meeting, told the assembly that first, third, and 5th semester undergraduate classes of the assemblage volition extremity connected December 20, alternatively of November 22 arsenic antecedently announced.

The second, fourth, and sixth semester undergraduate classes volition commencement from February 10, 2026, alternatively of January 12, 2026. The aforesaid adjacent semester classes volition extremity connected June 5, 2026 alternatively of May 8, 2026 arsenic announced earlier, helium said.

The world twelvemonth 2026-27 volition statesman successful August, 2026, Prof. Dharma said.

He said that the world calender of 2025-26 world twelvemonth has been revised, for some undergraduate and postgraduate programme, owed to the hold successful the assignment of impermanent teachers to authorities colleges. Hence, world docket of the assemblage has been postponed by a month, helium said.

Referring to the valuation of reply scripts, the Vice-Chancellor said, “With the volition of speeding up the evaluation, we person sent a connection to UUCMS to transportation retired this connected a distant basis, and if approved, the valuation tin beryllium expedited.”

Submission of compliance report

The gathering approved the compliance reports connected the audit study of Mangalore University for the years 2021-22 and 2022-23. At the aforesaid time, the yearly accounts for the twelvemonth 2024-25 were besides approved. In 2021-22, ₹2.31 crore was recommended for recovery, portion successful 2022-23, ₹4.69 crores were recommended for recovery. A compliance study has been prepared based connected the enactment taken by the assemblage connected the audit report.

Published - October 09, 2025 09:28 p.m. IST

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