Mangaluru : Mangalore University will tighten campus security by first securing its area with a compound wall, fencing off the encroached area, appointing security guards and even deploying CISF if the need arises. Installation of high-quality CCTVs at all vantage points in public areas will be part of this move to revamp security to make it safe for all stakeholders on the campus, said vice-chancellor P S Yadapadithaya, here on Tuesday.

Stating this at a meet the press programme organised by Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists’ Union, the VC said about seven acres of university land has been encroached upon. To prevent further encroachment, 335 acres in its possession will be secured through a compound wall, and seven acres of encroached land fenced, to distinguish between the two, pending settlement of litigation with people who have encroached upon the same.

Post audit of effectiveness of CCTVs already installed on campus, the university will go in for state-of-the-art surveillance of its campus. “There is also a thinking to induct Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to augment campus security if the governor, also the chancellor of the university, concurs with a proposal to this effect,” the VC said, underscoring the high importance that the 39-year-old university is giving to security of those on its campus.

The university is also planning to divert all public transport on the campus as part of this security move, Yadapadithaya said. Instead, commute inside the campus will be restricted to use of bicycles and battery-operated buggies. The university has plans to relocate public thoroughfare outside the campus with help from the Public Works Department, he said, failing which the university would mull acquiring land to create the thoroughfare bypassing its campus.

With focus on fitness, the university has provided gymnasiums in its four hostels and in constituent colleges. A public gymnasium park to promote the Fit India movement of the Union government will be opened on the Mangalagangothri campus, Yadapadithaya said. Plans are afoot to lay a 400-metre synthetic track with equipped stadium, and construct an Olympic standard swimming pool on the campus to promote fitness, he noted.