nagpur the nagpur university conducted its historic 100th convocation with much fanfare on september 26 but the mega event made its coffers poorer by about rs 39 lakh ironically the original cost for muchhyped and most controversial ceremony in nus history was pegged at rs 25 lakh but it jumped to over rs 39 lakh owing to lavish arrangements being made by the nu administration led by divisional commissioner anoop kumar who was acting vice chancellor and then provc vinayak deshpande as per nu statutory members the issue would come up for discussion during the management council meeting on tuesday where the proposal to clear the revised cost would be tabled for clearance members said that there was no need to splurge the precious funds which came from the fees collected from the students on a single event and especially when the university was facing severe financial crisis nu would also be conducting its regular academic council meeting on thursday from 11am nu officials on the condition of anonymity however informed that the cost escalated as they had to shift venue from dr deshpande hall to its ground near the subhedar hall it jumped due to a huge pandal that was erected to accommodate thousands who throng the venue to witness the historic ceremony and to listen to former president apj abdul kalam all top class arrangements including provision of led screens were made for the spectators who came from all districts of vidarbha they clarified they added that nu management council members deans and officials had donned colourful convocation robe prevalent during the britishera which added to the glamour quotient even a special documentary on nus long journey was shown which led to huge cost escalation among other issues to be discussed during tuesdays mc meeting included clearance to bachelor of vocation bvoc courses that had already commenced from 201415 session they included those in retail management networking and system administration food processing and engineering software development theatre and stagecraft acting building technology and automotive from various faculties another proposal would be hiking remuneration to be paid to chartered accountancy firm ratan chandak and company that looked after nus accounts and audits now they would be offered rs 3000 per certificate below rs 1 crore and rs 7000 for those over rs 5 crore the proposal of koranne consultants that had proposed to construct nus muchneeded administrative building to come up at nus 44 acres land behind campus would be on the agenda the firm had given an estimate of rs 2273 crore for the entire construction which the members wanted to reduce the bajaj group had already promised rs 10 crore to nu for the purpose under its corporate social responsibility clause and also released its first instalment members said management council meeting agenda clearing revised estimates of convocation which jumped to rs 39 lakh they included retail management food processing software development among others bachelor of vocation bvoc courses that commenced from