Plans are also afoot to renovate the capacious 96-year-old Wheeler Senate House where the anniversary event was hosted. The Bihar government has approved all three projects, the University officials said.
Patna University unveils new designs for admin, academic block on 106th foundation day
Patna University unveiled the new structural designs for the proposed high-rise administrative and academic blocks to mark its 106th foundation day. While speaking on the same, University officials said, plans are also afoot to renovate the capacious 96-year-old Wheeler Senate House where the anniversary event was hosted. The Bihar government has approved all three projects, they said.
Patna University Vice-Chancellor Girish Kumar Choudhary while speaking on the same said that " The two new blocks were proposed a year ago. But certain changes were made in the designs. As per the plan, a G plus eight-storey administrative block will come up on campus. This has been finalised. According to the earlier plan, the auditorium was to come up on the top floor, but it has been moved to the ground floor."
"The academic block will be a G plus nine-storey building with a cafeteria on the ground floor. The upper floors will house two departments each on average. It will also house a library," Kumar said as reported by NDTV.
He also shared slides of the new designs. The project is estimated to cost INR 139 crore. The previous designs had shown the two proposed structures in a heavily glass-fronted look.
"The old administrative block, once vacated, will be used for vocational courses, while Vanijya Mahavidyalaya will move to the historic Darbhanga House once postgraduate departments are shifted to the new academic block, he added. "
"We are making efforts to regain the university's lost glory. For the renovation of Wheeler Senate House, INR 2.84 crore has been sanctioned," he said. The Senate House is named after the then governor of the province and varsity chancellor Sir Henry Wheeler, who inaugurated it in 1926.
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