mangaluru the academic council meeting chaired by mangalore university vicechancellor p s yadapadithaya on tuesday approved the starting of several new courses the university will start bsc basichonours biotechnology multidisciplinary undergraduate programme at the university campus in mangalagangothri from 202324 already this year it has started bsc yogic science multidisciplinary and bsc geography multidisciplinary ug degree programmes which are semesterbasedthe academic council approved the starting of the msc data science course at st aloysius college autonomous with an intake of 30 students it approved the introduction of two new ba and bsc programmes in nutrition and health education computer animation for undergraduate programmes and increased the intake for the masters programme in big data analytics to 30 at st agnes college the college was also given the green signal to start mba and mca programmes from the academic year 202223 with an intake of 60 students each the programmes have already received approval from the aicte a bcom programme with an intake of 60 students at the school of social work roshni nilaya was approved with the amendment to eligibility criteria for admission to the msc in mathematics course candidates who have passed bachelor of engineering be or bachelor of technology btech from any recognised university with mathematics in at least four semesters with a minimum 45 marks are eligible to enrol for an msc in mathematicsthe council meeting also approved the draft statute for heartfulness chair by the sahaj marg spirituality foundation of mysuru the foundation has deposited rs 25 lakh for the same yadapadithaya said that the dasara holiday for ug and pg students of mangalore university for colleges in dakshina kannada udupi and kodagu districts will be from thursday classes will reopen on october 6 there is a uniform academic calendar followed in the state the dasara holidays are announced with a condition that the valuation of answer scripts is not affected by the holiday he said