Most of the State Universities are overburdened with hundreds of affiliated colleges and as a step to decongest these Universities, Government has decided to establish Cluster Universities in the States. These Cluster Universities shall be created from the existing four to five Colleges that are located in close vicinity. The infrastructure development of the Cluster Universities is funded through the Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme of the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD).
The Cluster University of Srinagar (CUS) has been created by pooling the resources of five existing colleges of Amar Singh College, Sri Pratap College, Govt. College for Women, M. A. Road, Govt. Degree College, Bemina and Govt. College of Education. These five constituent colleges of the Cluster University have adequate academic, physical and technical infrastructural facilities and the mission of CUS would be to lead these colleges to the advanced schools of learning.
Cluster University of Srinagar shall be an independent University and shall conduct examinations and award degrees following its own rules and regulations. It shall have its own regulatory bodies with Hon’ble Chief Minster as Chancellor of the Cluster University.
All the degress, whether it is under-graduate or post-graduate, shall be awarded by the Cluster University of Srinagar, henceforth. However, it is important to add that those students of the five constituent colleges, who are in the second or third year of their studies, shall continue to remain affiliated with the University of Kashmir and shall be awarded degrees by this University.
