bengaluru with three universities vying to take ownership of the one of the countrys oldest engineering colleges university visvesvaraya college of engineering uvce a committee formed by the government to resolve the matter is likely to submit its report soon on tuesday sv ranganath vicechairman of karnataka higher education council and head of the committee held a meeting with the vicechancellors of bengaluru central university bcu visvesvaraya technological university vtu and bangalore university bu and took note of their opinions ranganath told toi a report will be submitted to the government soon sources said the bangalore university vc demanded that uvce be made a deemed university but till then it should be part of bu sources said before taking any such decision uvce needs to be upgraded with proper infrastructure and its vacant posts should be filled at present 84 of the 177 teaching posts in the institution are vacanton the other hand the bcu said it had written to the karnataka examinations authority kea seeking that this years admissions to uvce be given to bcu but bu has already uploaded uvces seat matrix for 201920 admissions to kea during the meeting convened by higher education minister gt devegowda on monday sources said he was interested in making uvce an independent body but wanted to go through the committee report first and consult senior government officials the 102yearold instituion has 4500 students on its rolls it was the fifth engineering college to be established in the country in 1917 the brainchild of sir m visvesvaraya who was then diwan of mysore after bangalore university was formed in 1964 uvce became one of its constituent colleges the college currently imparts courses such as electronics and communication engineering computer science electrical and electronics engineering mechanical engineering civil engineering and architecture rumours haunt students uvce students are distraught over varsities wrangling over the affiliation and government ignoring the need to upgrade the institution they are worried over the possibility of courses being split among the universities uvce gets huge grants but what is shocking is that even the building is in bad shape and the laboratories are yet to be upgraded to todays standards there are a lot of vacancies but the governments sheer apathy is hurting the students fraternity a student said