MU reserves 2 seats each in 17 Dept for Myanmarese students
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 09 2013:
At least two seats each in 17 different Departments which falls under the School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences in Manipur University have been kept reserved for Myanmarese students nominated by the Myanmar Government.
The seats for Post Graduate courses which have been granted by the authority of the Manipur University for Myanmarese students in the School of Humanities include Department of Dance, English, Hindi, Linguistics, Manipuri, Philosophy and Foreign Language.
The seats reserved in departments under the School of Social Science are Department of Adult Continuing Education and Extension, Commerce, History, Economics, Library and Information Science, Political Science, Sociology and Department of Management Studies.
Myanmarese students nominated by the Myanmar Government will be directly admitted to the Manipur University against these reserved seats without the trouble of sitting for entrance test.
In addition to this, these students would be provided with special concession on tuition fees and lodging fees.
Talking to Hueiyen Lanpao in this regard, Prof HNK Sharma, Vice Chancellor of Manipur University, informed that the representatives of Myanmarese Studies Centre of Manipur University also were among the delegation led by Chief Minister O Ibobi, which had visited Myanmar recently.
During the visit, the representatives of Myanmarese Studies Centre met the representatives of Myanmar University and Monawe Institute of Economics and discussed the possibility of Education Exchange Programmes between Myanmar and Manipur.
As a follow up to that interaction and to establish close relation between Manipur and Myanmar, the initiative of reserving two seats each for Myanmarese students in the 17 department in Manipur University has been taken up.
He further informed that the facilities being provided by the University to the Myanmarese students would be made known to the Myanmar Government through a written statement.
In addition to this, the Myanmar Embassy in India will also be informed.
The details of the special concession to be provided to the Myanmarese students with regard tuition and lodging fees will be discussed in a meeting of the Executive Council of the university, the Vice Chancellor disclosed, and added that the seats for the Myanmarese students will remain vacant if the Myanmar Government does not send their nominees.