Shillong, June 8 : The Centre has turned down Meghalaya&aposs proposal for setting up a world class university of music in the state.
State Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh told the assembly today that the proposal for the Rs 100 crore project, made by her predecessor Manas Chaudhuri, was turned down by the then Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh.
The Centre had argued that Meghalaya already had North Eastern Hill University, a central institution.Recalling that during his tenure as Education minister Chaudhuri himself had written to the then Union Minister of DoNER, Mani Shankar Aiyar for setting up a world class central university of music, Lyngdoh informed the House that the ministry took up the matter with HRD ministry.
In his reply to the state education department, Singh had, however, acknowledged that the people of state did have"exceptional aptitude"in a myriad genre of music.
Contending that such a music university should be set up in any other state of the Northeast region, which does not have a central university, Singh had even proposed Assam’s name for the proposed project.
Pointing out that there was"music talent"in the state, Chaudhuri urged the education minister to examine the idea of introducing music in the school board curriculum.
The education minister maintained that the state government was still "trying to put pressure"on the Centre for clearing the proposal.
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