UGC plans to let students access libraries, labs in other colleges
Higher educational institutions will also be able to share sports facilities
Students studying in various universities and colleges affiliated to them will now be able to use the library and laboratory of a college or university other than their own.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) plans to share the resources of different universities and colleges. Students can also do research work, or can avail of sports facilities in colleges other than those they are currently studying in.
UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said that universities, colleges or other higher educational institutions can provide such facilities to students with mutual consent.
Under this initiative, the educational institutions can allow students studying in other colleges or universities to use their laboratory, science room, computer lab, research, library, e-library. Apart from academic studies, the higher educational institutions will also be able to share sports facilities under which students of other educational institutions will be allowed to use the playground, seminar hall and stadium.
Similarly, if a student of one college wants to use the research resources of another college, then he can do research in other colleges outside his own college for which the UGC has made a special guideline for planning this arrangement.
According to the UGC, state universities will be able to make more use of the resources of central universities and higher educational institutions. The special thing about this initiative is that the cost of maintenance of these resources will be borne by the UGC.