BANGALORE: Looks like the government run telecom giant sees high potential and escalating growth in the field of education as it has started to work on establishing a technical university that is entitled to offer engineering and management courses.  To justify it further the PSU is all set to approach All India Council for Technical Education as well as University Grants Commission for formal approval within next eight months.

Anupam Shrivastava BSNL Director (Consumer Mobility) exclaimed, "BSNL has sufficient infrastructure to meet AICTE guidelines for engineering and management education. We also have sufficient supporting staff to meet norms as laid down by UGC. Our staff is working on it. We should be able to send it for formal approval in 6-8 months."

He further added that it should not be difficult for BSNL to get the necessary approvals as some steps were taken by the Human Resource Development Ministry in 2008 to boost educational system.

"Due to the initiatives of HRD Ministry, institutions running short-term courses such as Defence Institute of Advance Technology have been converted into formal and autonomous education institutions. We should also have no issues in getting approval," Shrivastava said.

The Public Enterprise Selection Board has selected Shrivastava for the post of Chairman and Managing Director of the company, succeeding the present CMD R K Upadhyay. And it has also formed a committee under its senior general manager G C Manna to work on the detailed project report.
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