Calicut University rejected land request for IUML

KOZHIKODE: The Calicut University's claim that there were only three applications seeking land for setting up institutions has been proved wrong. Documents with TOI reveal that the university had received an application from MRB Educational Trust, apart from the three, for starting Buds School for physically and mentally challenged children.
"The trust runs educational institutions for people from educationally-backward areas, especially in Malabar.Now this trust has decided to start a special school for differently-abled children. For this we need two acres of land from the varsity on lease," said the letter from Sreekumar Nair M K, the managing trustee of the MRB Trust. The university registrar, in the reply, said, "The request for allotting the university land cannot be considered at present."
The varsity had claimed that it allotted the land on a first-come first-serve basis. The application from MRB Trust was submitted on March 12, eight days before the request from Grace Educational Association. The university rejected the first one to sanction land for trust whose chairman is IUML state president.