kochi cusat vice chancellor j letha said that there is no move to remove the name of former finance minister k m mani from the k m mani centre for budget studies functioning in the university soon after mani resigned amidst allegations of his involvement in the bar bribery case there was a demand to remove manis name from the centre the cochin university employees association had written about the same to the chancellor who forwarded the matter to university authorities a resolution was also moved by a university senate member at the senate meeting on january 4 requesting to rename the centre as centre for budget studies however the demand was rejected there is no need to rename the centre as it was given not merely because he was the finance minister of the state he was an exceptional personality who presented 13 state budgets which is a national record said letha meanwhile pwd minister ebrahim kunju will lay the foundation stone for the centre on saturday at cusat a workshop on accrual based budgeting in local governments will also be held in connection with he same vicepresident hamid ansari had formally inaugurated the centre on february 17 2013 at the assembly hall in the state capitalso far the state government has made an allocation of rs 105 crore for the centre two new courses will be introduced at the centre in the next academic year