It has been functioning since 1991 and has been functioning under the department of English since 1984. It offers three PhDs, 8 M.Phil. and more than 100 MA degrees in the English department.

WIth the new sanction the centre will function on a multidisciplinary basis and will operate as an independent administrative and academic unit and have the status of a department in the university.

Director of the centre O P Juneja said the four faculty positions of a professor, a reader and two lectures from different disciplines of Canadian studies will be sanctioned for the centre.

He added that expenditure for building, including a seminar room, office equipment, books and journals, field work and operational cost will also be provided to the centre.

The centre will also be sanctioned a documental officer for the sectional library. The UGC team for this upgradation is likely to visit the centre next month.