Five leading colleges selected for ‘Heritage College’ project

The Higher Education Department has selected 5 salient colleges successful Kerala to beryllium elevated arsenic Centres of Excellence nether the ‘Heritage College’ project.

The selected institutions see Government Victoria College, Palakkad; Government Brennen College, Thalassery; Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur; Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam; and University College, Thiruvananthapuram.

Under the ‘Heritage College’ task funded by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the colleges volition person an concern of ₹30 crore each.

The task focuses connected infrastructure development, conservation of practice buildings and large-scale digitisation of world facilities.

Higher Education Minister R. Bindu, who made the announcement successful Thrissur connected Monday, added that Sree Kerala Varma College volition soon motorboat a sub-centre of the Kerala Network for Research Support successful Higher Education, a Centre of Excellence aimed astatine coordinating probe activities successful the higher acquisition assemblage crossed the State.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishing the sub-centre was handed implicit astatine a ceremonial relation held successful the Minister’s presence.