RMU’s syndicate approves Tk 6.13 cr budget

Taka 6.13 crore budget has been approved for Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) for its 2018-19 financial year.

The syndicate approved the annual budget in a meeting held here yesterday with RMU’s Vice-chancellor and Syndicate President Prof Masum Habib in the chair.

The meeting also approved RMU’s own monogram and examination committee for post basic nursing.

Prof Masum Habib said Taka 4.13 crore of the total budgets will come from Bangladesh University Grants Commission and the rest from its own sources.

He told the meeting that all the existing public and private medical colleges, dental colleges and nursing colleges and institutes in Rajshahi, Rangpur and Khulna divisions were brought under the jurisdiction of RMU.

The university will conduct 85 post-graduate courses under nine faculties. Appointment was given to some of the major posts including registrar and controller of examinations.

There will be a 1,000-bed modern hospital attached to the university. A nursing institute will also be established for creating skilled nurses.

Source: BSS