nagpur saturday was supposed to be historic day for nagpur university as the foundation stone for its new administrative block was to be laid by chief minister devendra fadnavis in the presence of bajaj auto limited chairman rahul bajaj however it turned out to be lottery day for the nine decades old institution unexpectedly the cashstrapped varsity got a 25 crore bonanza that would give a fillip to its dream projects of the new building and convocation hall with the 10 crore earlier pledged by bajaj under its corporate social responsibility csr and fadnavis assuring 20 crore on saturday the nu now has the biggest aid of 35 crore in its history fadnavis not only announced 20 crore for nus new convocation hallcumconvention centre that would accommodate about 40005000 people but also convinced bajaj to enhance their contribution to 15 crore from 10 crore for nus administrative block the cm said the new convocation hall would be more spacious and beautiful than any other structure at varsities across maharashtra the bonhomie between cm and bajaj wasnt missing when both cajoled each other over the funding this brought a smile on the face of the varsity officials both the dignitaries have kept certain conditions for the release of funds which would be big challenge for nu administration under vice chancellor siddharthvinayaka kane and provc pramod yeole terming himself a true businessman bajaj set two years deadline from october 1 for nu to complete the project fadnavis asked the vc to ease the restrictions on use of new convocation hall for nu functions only if its use was limited to nu it wouldnt be used for more than three to four days in a month therefore it was imperative for nu to allow its use for sociocultural events so that its maintenance cost could be recovered and facility could be used to full extent he said the cm called on nu officials to set the target that by the time they shift to the new building the university becomes totally paperless citing example of tel aviv university in israel having reputation of worlds greenest building the cm advised nu administration to make new block a stateoftheart green building were going to make nagpur a smart city with wifi facility the first requirement for it is increasing efficiency by including concepts like green building nus new building should be green one which should set precedent for others while the bajaj group would be donating 10 crore the rest would be jointly shared by the government and nu he said he pointed out that while nu pegged the cost of new building at 2452 crore by two years it would escalate to 30 crore hence fadnavis cut short his speech and requested bajaj to increase their share to 15 crore and invited him to make an announcement the industrialist then agreed to provide funds with certain conditions he told nu that the new convocation hall should be made available to educational institutions belonging to