MUMBAI: The city's sanctuaries of art and architecture, long groaning under indifference, just got a new lease of life. The state government has decided to grant them autonomy, the freedom to design their own curricula, to raise finance and decide who should be on their advisory committee.
Full autonomy—academic, administrative and financial—for the JJ School of Arts, JJ School of Applied Art and JJ School of Architecture comes after over 150 years of their existence. Among them, the erstwhile JJ School of Art and Industry, as it was then named, is the oldest.