The administration of Jadavpur University has reached out to its alumni to raise money to help the institution deal with the “financial crunch” when it holds the distinction of being the only state-run university from India to appear in the QS Sustainability World Ranking-2023.
The university was ranked seventh overall among Indian institutions. In a letter to a group of former students asking for financial help, JU Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das stated that the “government budget, both state and central, is becoming absolutely inadequate” for the institution.
The vice chancellor stated, “In recent years, we have faced tremendous budgetary constraints to preserve our academic quality, notably in science and technology, in a letter to the Global Jadavpur University Alumni Foundation on October 24. We must constantly improve our infrastructure, lower the student-teacher ratio, and take part in the internationalisation of higher education if we are to fulfil the demands of the global information economy.
“Being a public university, we primarily depend on government funding for organising the teaching-learning process. I appeal to you to mobilise financial support for the university to enable it to maintain and improve the infrastructure and strengthen our ability to compete at national and international levels.”
“We are not getting adequate funds from the state government to keep up with the increasing expenditure. The grants from the Centre have stopped too. The university is going through a financial crunch. We have appealed to the alumni for funds. Now we have appealed to the state government as well. The state government’s funds are is not enough because the cost of various things have increased after the Covid-19 pandemic.”