MYSURU: The special academic council of University of Mysore UoM ) on Thursday approved a proposal of increasing students’ intake in its constituent colleges.The idea behind increasing intake is to increase total enrollment at the higher education sector by 20%. The meeting was chaired by the V-C G Hemantha Kumar.Kumar said that presently the national average of enrollment for the higher education is 25.2%. “It is 26.5% in Karnataka . But to increase this by another 20%, the state government decided to increase intake in all government colleges and universities by 20%,” he said."A committee will be formed to look into infrastructure and other issues that will arise due to the increase in intake," Kumar added.The meeting also approved to continue the existing course combinations in all first-grade colleges. According to the proposal, 164 first grade colleges will be permitted to continue with existing courses and combinations in the new academic year too.The proposal to set up three endowments including those proposed by Usharani and BP Maheshchandra Guru was also approved in the meeting.It was also decided to incorporate a few more pointers in the proposed new rules for the specialised programes and research institutes affiliated to the university. The new rules and guidelines were proposed by a committee headed by former registrar (evaluation) J Somashekar.

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