B E College becomes university

KOLKATA: West Bengal is all set to get a new university. A brief meeting of the state Cabinet on Tuesday put its seal of approval on the century-old Shibpur B.E. College to become a full-fledged university. It has been a deemed university for the last six years.
"There was some confusion over what the new university should be called, but in the end we agreed with the chief minister''s opinion that getting the university to start new courses and expand was more important than a name," fire services minister Pratim Chatterjee, said.Some of the ministers including Chatterjee, Md Salim and Srikumar Mukherjee argued that ‘Shibpur'' was a "local sounding name", not ap-propriate for a university.
However, higher education minister Satyasad-han Chakrabarty said it was a name with which people had been associat-ing the institution for more than 100 years.
The Cabinet also decided to provide swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya a state government job.
Baidya lost both his legs but swam across the English Channel.