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Kaithal News and Updates
CHANDIGARH: Haryana public works (building & roads) minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and president, All India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress, Shamsher Singh Surjewala on Friday laid the foundation stone of a university to be set up by NIILM Education Institute at Kyorak village in Kaithal district.
Surjewala said that the university would offer various job-oriented courses from next July.
In the private sector, it is the first university to be set up in a rural area where international courses would be taught to students. Many colleges would get affiliation.
The minister said that university would conduct management, engineering, communication and technology based job-oriented courses so that area students could get employment after completing their education.
Communication and corporate sector could be instrumental in providing jobs in future; therefore, courses like fashion designing, marketing, music, media, law would be offered at the university.
Surjewala said that students of Kaithal district would get admission on priority basis.
They would get 15% rebate on admission while girl students would get 10% fee concession.
A bright student each from 283 villages of the district would get free admission at the university on the recommendation of the panchayat concerned.
Girls from Kaithal district would get admission on priority.
Kaithal History
KAITHAL, or Kythal, an ancient town of British India in Karnal district, Punjab. Pop. (1901), 14,408. It is said to have been founded by the mythical hero Yudisthira, and is connected by tradition with the monkey-god Hanuman. In 1767 it fell into the hands of the Sikh chieftain, Bhai Desu Singh, whose descendants, the bhais of Kaithal, ranked among the most powerful Cis-Sutlej chiefs. Their territories lapsed to the British in 1843. There remain the fort of the bhais, and several Mahommedan tombs of the 13th century and later. There is some trade in grain, sal-ammoniac, live stock and blankets; and cotton, saltpetre, lac ornaments and toys are manufactured.
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