Private university in J&K: Dr Makhdoomi launches website to intensify efforts

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SRINAGAR: Prominent educationist Dr Mehboob Makhdoomi has intensified his efforts to set up a private university in Jammu and Kashmir by launching a website www.ysmmet.org, statement said.

It said that Makhdoomi in a bid to bring home global higher education practices, exposure to the students, and to bridge industry-academia void. “His mission and vision statements talk about setting a benchmark for quality education in South-Asia and emphasize collaborations with the leading universities around the world,” the statement said. 

It said that Dr Makhdoomi’s website has testimonials from world-renowned intellectuals like Prof Noam Chomsky, AMU Professor Emeritus Nejatullah Siddiqui and many more. 

The advisory board for this initiative, according to the statement, includes faculty from Harvard in Boston, Prof A S Chawla (vice- chancellor-RIMT university in Punjab),  Prof Siddiq Wahid (former V-C IUST), Prof Anju Bhasin (Vice-Chancellor Cluster University of Jammu), Dr Khalid Shah (Director- Stem Cell Therapeutics & Imaging at Harvard Medical School), numerous other industrialists, and academics from Kashmir University and Central Universities of the state.

The video has also been released, which features J&K students from the US, UK, Canada, Turkey, Gulf, Malaysia, Singapore, and those studying locally in J&K & other states, supporting the initiative. The idea is to have a publicly-funded varsity that would nurture talent, create global citizens and would be open to everyone from anywhere, without any discrimination. The web address is www.ysmmet.org

Here is the Video….