Gondwana University Offers 11 Postgraduate Courses Free

Gondwana University Offers 11 Postgraduate Courses Free: Gondwana University may be the first in the state to waive admission and tuition fees for the academic year 2022-23 in order to increase education among the economically disadvantaged, particularly in the backward districts of Chandrapur and Maoist-affected Gadchiroli.

• The university has also launched a unique ‘Sampark Abhiyan’ in remote areas to encourage students to enrol in higher education courses.
• Teachers spearheaded these campaigns at the village and taluka levels to ensure student counselling for university admission.
• Apart from waiving admission and tuition fees, the university’s Management Council has also decided to provide free hostel accommodation to newly enrolled students.
• Furthermore, Vice-Chancellor Prashant Bokare announced that the Management Council has created a ‘part-time’ job opportunity for students under the Krantiveer Baburao Sedmake scheme.

“After waiving the fees, we thought about lodging, boarding and travel too. Buses picking up the students from our newly procured hostels in Gadchiroli will ferry them to the campus free of cost,” VC stated.

Bokare also stated that the students would receive a sufficient stipend after only a few hours of work, which would cover their food, pocket money, and some savings, allowing them to send money to family members.

“We had observed that students from backward places join the elders in the family for working in the fields or business, soon after schooling and often abandon their education to save the expenses on admission and fees,” said the VC.

The decision to make post-graduate courses free of charge includes, among other things, PG degrees in English, Marathi, history, mass communications, economics, chemistry, and sociology.

Varsha Kolhe, the university’s public relations officer, stated that students would be charged Rs25 for some scholarship documents and formalities. “Colleges in Aheri (Gadchiroli) and another at Tukum (Chandrapur) have been earmarked as centres by the university from which the students can take direct admissions to Gondwana University courses without having to travel all the way to reach the campus,” she said.

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According to Bokare, the university has taken over unused hostels from the government science college and agricultural college in Gadchiroli in order to provide students with free lodging.

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