 bill no 147 of  2019 the central universities (amendment) bill, 2019 a billfurther to amend the central universities act, 2009be it enacted by parliament in the seventieth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the central universities (amendment) act, 2019short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appointinsertion of new sections 3c and 3d"3c there shall be established a university, which shall be a body corporate, to be known as the central university of andhra pradesh, having its territorial jurisdiction extending to the whole of the state of andhra pradesh, as specified in the first schedule to this actestablishment of central university of andhra pradesh53d there shall be established a tribal university, which shall be a body corporate, to be known as the central tribal university of andhra pradesh, having its territorial jurisdiction extending to the whole of the state of andhra pradesh, as specified in the first schedule to this act, to provide avenues of higher education and research facilities primarily for the tribal population of india"establishment of central tribal university of andhra pradesh10amendment of section 53 in section 5 of the principal act, the following proviso shall be inserted at the end, namely:—"provided that the tribal university established under section 3d shall take additional measures for paying special attention to the tribal centric higher education and research, including art, culture and customs"154 for the first schedule to the principal act, the following schedule shall be substituted, namely:—substitution of new schedule for first schedule"the first schedule[see section 3(4)]serial    name of thename of the universityterritorial jurisdiction20no       state (1)    (2)(3)(4)1 andhra pradeshcentral university of andhra pradesh whole of the state ofandhra pradesh252 andhra pradeshcentral tribal university ofwhole of the state ofandhra pradeshandhra pradesh3 biharcentral university of south biharterritory in the south ofthe river ganges in the state of bihar304 biharmahatma gandhi central universityterritory in the north of theriver ganges in the state of bihar5 gujaratcentral university of gujaratwhole of the state ofgujarat356 haryanacentral university of haryanawhole of the state ofharyana7 himachalcentral university ofwhole of the state ofpradeshhimachal pradeshhimachal pradesh408 jammu andcentral university of kashmirkashmir division of the kashmirstate of jammu and kashmir9 jammu andcentral university of jammujammu division of thekashmirstate of jammu and kashmir10 jharkhandcentral university of jharkhandwhole of the state ofjharkhand4511 karnatakacentral university of karnatakawhole of the state ofkarnataka| serial    name of the   | name of the university           | territorial jurisdiction   ||-------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------|| no       state         |                                  |                            || (1)                     | (2)                              | (3)                        || 12 kerala              | central university of kerala     | whole of the state of      || kerala                 |                                  |                            || 5                       |                                  |                            || 13 odisha              | central university of odisha     | whole of the state of      || odisha                 |                                  |                            || 14 punjab              | central university of punjab     | whole of the state of      || punjab                 |                                  |                            || 10                      |                                  |                            || 15 rajasthan           | central university of rajasthan  | whole of the state of      || rajasthan              |                                  |                            || 16 tamil nadu          | central university of tamil nadu | whole of the state of      || tamil nadu"           |                                  |                            | statement of objects  and  reasonsthe central universities act, 2009 was enacted to establish and incorporate universities for teaching and research in various states and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto2 establishment of one central university and one central tribal university in the state of andhra pradesh will increase access and quality of higher education and also facilitate and promote avenues of higher education and research facilities for the people of the state further, the tribal university will promote advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in tribal art, culture and customs and advancement in technology to the tribal population of india apart from being focused to the tribal education, the central tribal university shall carry out all educational and other activities like any other central university at present, there is no central university in the state of andhra pradesh while all other states, except goa, have one or more central university moreover, the establishment of a central university and a central tribal university in the state of andhra pradesh is obligatory under the andhra pradesh reorganisation act, 20143 accordingly, it has been decided to amend the central universities act, 2009 to provide for the establishment of one central university by the name of "central university of andhra pradesh" and one tribal university by the name of "central tribal university of andhra pradesh" in the state of andhra pradesh4 the bill seeks to achieve the above objectivesnew delhi;ramesh pokhriyal nishankthe 28th june, 2019 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill seeks to insert new sections  3c and 3d in the central universities act, 2009, so as to establish two new universities as the body corporates to be known as the central university of andhra pradesh and the central tribal university of andhra pradesh, having its territorial jurisdiction extending to the whole of the state of andhra  pradesh2 the infrastructure for the two universities shall be set up in two phases, with a cap on expenditure, for four years approximately fifty per cent of the projected cost will be spend in phase i, with a cap of four hundred fifty crore rupees for the central university and four hundred twenty crore rupees for the central tribal university, being the total cost for phase i for the two universities as eight hundred seventy crore rupees however, the expenditure would be met from the consolidated fund of india, through the budgetary provisions of the ministry of human resource development annexure extract from the central universities act, 2009 (25 of 2009)|     |     |     |     |    ||------|------|------|------|-----| the first schedule [see section 3(4)]| sl                          | name of the                  | name of the university                                                | territorial jurisdiction         ||------------------------------|------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|| no state                    |                              |                                                                       |                                  || 1                           | bihar                        | central university of south bihar territory in the south of the river |                                  || ganges in the state of bihar |                              |                                                                       |                                  || 1a bihar                    | mahatma gandhi central       | territory in the north of the river                                   |                                  || university                   | ganges in the state of bihar |                                                                       |                                  || 2                           | gujarat                      | central university of gujarat                                         | whole of the state of gujarat    || 3                           | haryana                      | central university of haryana                                         | whole of the state of haryana    || 4                           | himachal                     | central university of himachal                                        | whole of the state of himachal   || pradesh                      | pradesh                      | pradesh                                                               |                                  || 5                           | jammu and                    | central university of kashmir                                         | kashmir division of the state of || kashmir                      | jammu and kashmir            |                                                                       |                                  || 5a jammu and                | central university of jammu  | jammu division of the state of jammu                                  |                                  || kashmir                      | and kashmir                  |                                                                       |                                  || 6                           | jharkhand                    | central university of jharkhand                                       | whole of the state of jharkhand  || 7                           | karnataka                    | central university of karnataka                                       | whole of the state of karnataka  || 8                           | kerala                       | central university of kerala                                          | whole of the state of kerala     || 9                           | orissa                       | central university of orissa                                          | whole of the state of orissa     || 10                          | punjab                       | central university of punjab                                          | whole of the state of punjab     || 11                          | rajasthan                    | central university of rajasthan                                       | whole of the state of rajasthan  || 12                          | tamil nadu                   | central university of tamil nadu whole of the state of tamil nadu    |                                  ||                             |                             |                                                                      |                                 |———— a billfurther to amend the central universities act, 2009————(shri ramesh pokhriyal nishank, minister of  human resource development)mgipmrnd—1226ls(s3)—04-07-2019