Ganta’s plea to start 2 new varsities
VIJAYAWADA: Human Resource Development Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao appealed Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to accord permission to commence Central University at Anantapur and Tribal University at Vizianagaram district during his visit to New Delhi on Wednesday.
Lands for the two institutions have been identified and the State government has made a provision of `1 crore to each university for construction of a compound wall. Also temporary accommodation has been identified to start classes of both the universities, he said.
He further said that five out of seven national institutions like IIT Tirupati, IISER Tirupati, IIM Visakhapatnam, NIT West Godavari and IIIT Kurnool have been established and being operated in temporary campuses, he said. He further urged the Centre to speed up the works of permanent campuses and release the funds allotted to them in the Budget for 2017-18.