Education ministry sanctions Rs 385.27 crore funding for overall infrastructure development of CUTN

Through the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), the Ministry of Education approved a total of Rs 385.27 crore for the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) in Thiruvarur's overall infrastructure development.

 This comes after Tamil Nadu had repeatedly protested that the Central government had not disbursed Rs 2,291.3 crore of funds for the 2024–2025 school education integrated program, which was sponsored by the Central government.

The State had approached the Supreme Court against the Centre in the matter on May 21, 2025.

A ministry release on official lines stated, "The additional amount sanctioned will allow CUTN to build new academic and hostel buildings—among them a state-of-art academic block, more hostels for students and research scholars, and residential quarters for teachers/staff. A Science Instrumentation Centre, with a special provision to have cutting-edge instruments for high-end research, will be set up."

The Ministry's grants will largely pay for the project.

This massive investment will modernize the university's learning environment, greatly enhance residential accommodation for students and research scholars and state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment to fully equip CUTM to respond to the changing needs of its academic fraternity," the release stated.

sanctioned projects and their expense are as follows - New Academic Building construction - Rs 96.4 crore; 300-bed girls hostel – Rs 46.63 crore; boys hostel of 300 beds – Rs 46.91 crore; Scientific Instrumentation Centre - Rs 19.95 crore; Scientific Instrument purchase - Rs 16.84 crore; Administrative building extension – Rs 46.16 crore; Faculty and Staff quarters (all categories) – Rs 62.97 crore and 400-bed research scholar hostel - Rs 42.6 crore.