Govt no to second state-run varsity

SHILLONG, Aug 2: The state government has ruled out setting up of another state university in Shillong.
Responding to the demands for another state university in Shillong, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma said the state university move should have happened a long time ago.
Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the chief minister said that Meghalaya’s first state university — Captain Williamson Sangma State University — will have a campus or office in Shillong and made it clear that setting up another university is not on the government’s mind right now.
He pointed out that financial implications and other factors need to be looked into before setting up a state university.
“We have to start the first one and then maybe we can think of a second one. Let us stabilise the first, see how it moves forward, set up campuses in different parts of the state wherever deemed necessary and then we can decide on the next plan,” Sangma added.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the service rules for the Meghalaya Public Service Commission.
The MPSC has been functional for decades but it did not have service rules for its employees, the chief minister said.
The Cabinet also passed an ordinance to amend the Meghalaya Medical Council Act of 1987.