Rs. 100-crore modernisation project for Maharaja's College.

The government has agreed to carry out infrastructure development projects worth about Rs. 100 crore at the autonomous Ernakulam Maharaja's College in the next five years utilising funds mobilised through the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB).

A meeting convened by the Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac here at the college recently decided to prepare the detailed project reports (DPRs) for various works before December 31. The DPRs would include a cost-benefit analysis, with the focus being on the social benefit emerging out of the infrastructure development.

The college authorities would either entrust KITCO, the government agency that prepared a master plan for college development, or request the KIIFB to undertake the work on preparing the DPRs. The government has agreed to extend budgetary support for the modernisation of the college.

THE HINDU