Urdu University seeks govt aid for its building

In its first meeting, the executive council of Urdu, Arabic-Persian University decided to offer some selected courses from the session starting July, 2011. The diploma courses of Arabic-Persian translator and interpreter, BCA, BCom, comparative studies of Indian languages, five-year integrated course in law, journalism and mass communication will be started, initially.

The V-C of the university, Anis Ansari said UP government had released Rs 11 crore for construction of a building against which Rs 17 crore has been spent by UP Nirman Nigam. A request has been made to the state government to release Rs 150 crore by September, 2010.

As for the eligibility criterion, it will be mandatory for the candidates taking admissions to have studied Udru, Arabic or Persian at the high school level. Every course offered by the university will have an additional paper of Urdu, Arabic or Persian. To make students learn the correct pronunciation, a lab will be set up. Along with Urdu, courses on comparative analysis of literatures of different languages like Hindi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Sanskrit would also be offered.

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