The Union Human Resource Development Minister said he would "fast-track" the setting up of a defense university as well.
"University Grants Commission (UGC) today granted Letter of Intent for first Railway University. Will fast-track defence University also," Javadekar said in a tweet.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had spoken of setting up India's first railway university in Vadodara, Gujarat, in addition to "two new full-fledged schools of planning and architecture" while presenting the Union Budget earlier this year.
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