Education ministry approves SRM University’s off-campus centre in Trichy

The Union Education Ministry has officially approved the SRM Institute of Science and Technology to start a new off-campus centre at Irungalur, Tiruchirapalli on the recommendation of the University Grants Commission (UGC). 

Earlier in 2018, the SRM Institute of Science and Technology had submitted the application to start an off-campus centre. However, in affiliation with Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, the SRM Trichy Arts and Science College was started in the same year. 

Moreover, the SRM trust runs various other educational institutions including SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre and an engineering college in Trichy. The institute, a deemed-to-be university, currently has three campuses in Chennai and one in Ghaziabad Delhi-NCR region. 

According to the regulations of UGC, any private deemed universities are allowed to establish upto three off-campus centres beyond the approved geographical boundaries within a period of five years.

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Further, the SRM group of institutions had three separate universities in Chennai, Haryana and Sikkim within 2015. Meanwhile, in 2017, the SRM University Andhra Pradesh was set up under the Andhra Pradesh Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2016 by the SRM Trust.

Now, the institute has been given the status of deemed to be university till 2023 with the condition that the SRM University improves its performance.