Panipat, Haryana: The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) management committee has announced that they would soon be setting up an all-women university in the state of Haryana.

Being touted as an ambitious project by DAV, the university will be the second of its kind in the state after Bhagat Phool Singh Women University (BPSWU), which are meant to provide quality education exclusively to girls. BPSWU was set up in the Sonepat district.

The plan to set up the second all women university was announced by Vijay Sabharwal, secretary of the DAV college management committee, a wing of the DAV Education Board.

Sabharwal said that the new university was being set up in Yamunanagar and is a part of a long-drawn strategy of the DAV management committee to provide quality education in areas that had no access to it.

He also said that the committee would be establishing two more all-women universities, one in Jallandhar, Punjab and another in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.