Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government has decided to merge the Noida based Mahamaya Technical University (MTU) and the existing Gautam Buddh Technical University (GBTU) to again form the UP (Uttar Pradesh) Technical University (UPTU). The new UP government took the decision of merging the Universities again, recently.
As per sources, Mahamaya Technical University was constituted during the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) regime by an Act of the UP Legislature in February 2010 and subsequently notified in the UP Gazette after bifurcating UPTU, Lucknow into Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow and Mahamaya Technical University, Noida.
In addition, MTU has about 385 colleges and institutions affiliated to it, with its jurisdiction in the western part of UP, essentially in Saharanpur, Meerut, Moradabad, Agra and Aligarh divisions. It has been offering courses in engineering, technology, management, pharmacy and other professional programmes. Operating from a five-storied building having 1.25 lakh square feet operational area, the university had an advantage of being in the propinquity to the national capital, Delhi.
According to sources, soon after coming to power in March 2011, the Samajwadi Party (SP) had gone on an overdrive by scrapping quite a few projects of the BSP government. And, this merging of universities again is another addition to the list of changes.
