mumbai students of mumbai university who have enrolled with its five subcentres can heave a sigh of relief as the varsity has decided to set up examination cells in each centrethane palghar raigad sindhudurg and ratnagiri mumbai university mu has projected a financial deficit of rs 7388 crore for 202223 on wednesday it tabled a budget of rs 809 crore and among the new initiatives it set aside rs 90 lakh for the five examination cells saving students multiple trips to the kalina campus for examrelated issues the mus deficit has ballooned from the previous year the total budget in 202122 was rs 724 crore and the estimated deficit was rs 7853 crore the mu which covers seven districts has proposed a subcentre in palghar and raigad and exam cells will be a part of these centres similarly money has been set aside for other initiatives including beautification of campus digital campus rs 5 crore and digital library rs 2 crore the lions share of rs 9 crore has been allocated to set up balasaheb thackeray arts and cultural centre a school of languages and a centre for philosophy are among the new constructions that will come up on campus several initiatives are a repeat of the previous budget vicechancellor suhas pednekar said that due to the covid19 pandemic not much could be achieved or constructed according to the data submitted by the university to the nirf expenses for the library for the past three years has totalled rs 50 crore this does not include expenses on infrastructure yet the situation of the library is deplorable said senate member vaibhav narawde in the current budget rs 17 crore has been set aside for the new librarys furniture and equipment narawde added that the expenses on visiting faculty as mentioned by the alkesh dinesh modi institute for financial and management studies is rs 40 lakh that is an astounding salary bill for visiting faculty buctu senate member gulabrao raje said in the last budget too money had been set aside for digital university but not a penny has been spentwhy do we set aside money for the same againthe mu has budgeted rs 195 crore that was expected to be received from the state as salary grants