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The Karnataka State Dr. Gangubai Hangal Music and Performing Arts University successful Mysuru is acceptable to execute a large milestone this month.
For, the administrative helping of the varsity volition displacement to the caller field marking a implicit modulation from the aged field successful Lakshmipuram here, from wherever it functioned since its inception successful 2008-09.
The euphony classes person already been operating connected the caller field since the existent world twelvemonth began successful July 2025; but with the shifting of the administrative block, the assemblage volition person a afloat unified field for the archetypal time, bringing each world and administrative activities nether 1 roof, according to Nagesh Bettakote, Vice-Chancellor.
He said it had been a 16-year-long hold for a full-fledged infrastructure and field of its own. The administrative wing, which continued to run from the aged Lakshmipuram premises, would displacement to the caller determination connected December 15, 2025, helium added.
The recently built field astatine Sardar Vallabhbhai Nagar, on the Outer Ring Road, spans six acres and had been conceived arsenic a self-contained world space. It features 8 ‘kutiras’ for applicable grooming and 4 high-tech classrooms equipped with integer boards for seminars, workshops and mentation sessions, said Prof. Bettakote.
The medication artifact has been constructed astatine a outgo of ₹4.95 crore, portion different ₹4.85 crore had gone into the schoolroom and ‘kutira’ complex. University officials noted that the full task was executed utilizing interior resources aft sustained efforts implicit the past 2 years.
All undergraduate and postgraduate classes are present being conducted connected the caller premises, which the assemblage describes arsenic an “ideal ambiance for learning music”.
“The aged field volition proceed to beryllium utilized to behaviour State-level peculiar examinations — including junior, elder and vidwat exams — too hosting evening and certificate courses. The assemblage presently served 659 students from backstage institutions operating nether MoUs,” said Prof. Bettakote.
The euphony varsity, the archetypal of its benignant successful the State, has 123 DLitt students, 46 PhD students, 121 students pursuing their master’s successful euphony and 34 students successful the undergraduate section.
The caller field with its ‘kutiras’ adjoining the Chamundi Hills provided the cleanable ambience for learning euphony and classical creation forms. Though students initially complained of distance, the pros neutralised the cons, said the Vice-Chancellor.
The Lakshmipuram field was an advertisement hoc arrangement; it was primitively a superior schoolhouse gathering from wherever the varsity functioned. Its sustained efforts ensured that onshore was granted and fulfilled the request for autarkic infrastructure.
Lack of a full-fledged field was 1 of the factors which made the varsity ineligible for UGC grants and with the caller infrastructure, determination are hopes that it volition fortify its lawsuit for funds for expansion.
