Pune Campus of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University to be ready by September: V-C

“The land was allotted many years ago but nothing had gone ahead. In my tenure I tried to tender it through the Public Works Department and now it is at the finishing stage. Within two months it will be ready. The civil work is completely completed, only the interior work and electrical work is remaining,” he said.

Currently, the Pune regional centre operates out of the Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe School Library at PMC School number 5 on Kumthekar Road. This space inside a school building was wholly inadequate for the operation of a regional centre of a University. According to the university website, only seven staff members were employed at the centre in 2020, the last year for which the data is available.

Sonawane added, “We want to shift the centre to our own building with more facilities for counsellors and students. There will be a computer centre with 50-100 computers which will facilitate our central assessment programme, which is an online on-screen evaluation, so Pune examiners can assess the on-screen evaluation at the new campus. Regular academic and counselling services will also be there.”

In a government resolution passed on July 3 by the Higher and Technical Education Department, the state government had approved Rs 4.12 crore for the “construction of the Divisional Center buildings of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Nashik in Pune”.