India, July 16 -- The Mumbai Educational Trust (MET) run by the family of food and civil supplies minister Chhagan Bhujbal has received permission to set up a skill university - a unique instance flagged by the state skill development department itself as the "first case of a private skill university on government land".

The state cabinet as well as the state legislature cleared the proposal for the Bhujbal Skill Tech University in Nashik last week. While MET has been running an educational institute on this government-owned land for two decades, its proposed skill university is a new institution governed by a different set of regulations.

This university will be set up on a plot whose construction area measures 11,704 sq m. According t...