Union Minister Of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal on Thursday stated that the National Development Council had approved the setting up of 14 Universities aiming at world-class standards and dedicated to innovation.
Replying to a question of members in the Lok Sabha, the minister said that Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh would get a university with international standards and infrastructure facilities.
Sibal said the universities were proposed to be located at Bhubaneswar in Orissa, Kochi in Kerala, Amritsar in Punjab, Greater Noida in Uttar Prdesh, Patna in Bihar, Guwahati in Assam, Kolkata in West Bengal, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Coimbatore in Tamilnadu, Mysore in Karnataka, Pune in Maharashtra, Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Jaipur in Rajasthan respectively.
The minister said that the universities would be established under public-private partnership.
The proposed universities for innovation are to be established across the 2 plan periods of XIth and XIIth Plan.