HYDERABAD: Film producers Daggubati Suresh and Dil Raju as well as Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech are among prominent citizens who are being considered by the state government for appointment in key positions in the Young India Skill University.
The government is expediting the process of appointing the board of governance to the university. It may be recalled that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy recently announced in the US the appointment of Anand Mahindra, chairperson of the Mahindra & Mahindra Group, as the chairman of the university.
It is learnt that the government has considered a total of seven names for the post of the chairperson before finalising Anand Mahindra’s name. They include industrialist Srini Raju, HCL’s Roshni Nadar, former secretary to the Government of India R Subramanian, former diplomat Syed Akbaruddin, former RBI governor Duvvuri Subba Rao and Infosys’s Kris Gopalakrishnan.
The government is also considering a few other prominent persons for the post of vice-chancellor, sources said. Among them are former principal economic adviser to the Union government VLCSS Subba Rao, Prof Neharika Vohra of IIM-Ahmedabad and Tata Strive’s Anita Rajan.
For board members, the names of Cyient’s BVR Mohan Reddy and Dr Reddy’s Satish Reddy are also in consideration apart from film producers Dil Raju and Daggubati Suresh Babu.
Others being considered for board membership are Suresh Chukkapalli (Phoenix Group), Rajiv Chilaka (Green Gold Animation), Ramesh Kaza (State Street), Gurunath Reddy (Continental Hospitals), Sangeetha Reddy (Apollo Hospitals), Mahima Datla (Biological E), Suchitra Ella (Bharat Biotech), Mamata Madireddy (HSBC), Meera Shenoy (Youth4Jobs), Vijay Mohanraj (Sameera Travels & Tours), Sandeep Agarwal (Ratnadeep), Anil Kumar Chalamalasetty (Greenko), Prem Watsa (Fairfax), Farhan or Azam (Hardware Prototyping), Shantanu Paul (Talent Sprint), Anil Gupta (IIMA), Rajanna V (TCS), Randhir Singh (Vishwakarma University), Vijayanand S (Amara Raja), Vaghesh Dixit (ALPLA), Praveen Kumar (former secretary, Ministry of Skill Development), Sanjiv Rangrass (former ITC member), S Siva Kumar (ITC), Balram Singh Yadav (Godrej Agrovet), Guruprasad Srinivasan (Quess Corp) and Ravi Narra (DICCI).
As per Skill University Act, the governing body will consist of at least 15 members, including the chairperson and vice-chancellor of university.