Dr Mohan Man Sainju, former Vice-Chairman National Planning Commission & former chairman of Institute for Integrated Development Studies, Kathmandu, says homework on the project is yet to be done. “It is still not very clear as to what is the objective of a South Asian University. After all, India and all other SAARC nations have their bunch of select centres of academic excellence, so what is going to bring students to this particular university?”
Jehan Ara, Advisor of Pakistan Software Houses Association said the “connectivity” is far easy to achieve through linking up of major universities of SAARC nations on the Internet.