New Delhi, Sep 13 - After allocating Rs. 25 crore (Rs.250 million) for two more campuses of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the government is planning to set up three more universities for the country's minorities, according to officials.

'Three universities primarily for the students of minority communities will be set up with a view to providing them better higher education,' a senior official of the minority affairs ministry told IANS, requesting anonymity since he is not authorised to speak to the media.

These universities will be set up in Mysore (Karnataka), Kishanganj (Bihar) and Ajmer (Rajasthan).

According to the official, 'Fifty percent of the seats in these universities will be reserved for minority students to make them more competitive in the job market.'

To be set up on land owned by Waqf boards, these universities will provide education in all modern subjects along with theological teaching.

However, officials said the biggest problem in establishing such universities will be to overcome the legal hurdles for providing 50 percent reservation for students from minority communities.

'Our effort is to find a solution according to constitutional provisions so that the proposal doesn't get stuck in legalities as it happened in the case of AMU.