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Sunday, August 10, 2008

ANU to set up engg. college on campus

GUNTUR: Acharya Nagarjuna University will set up an engineering college on the campus at Nagarjuna Nagar for admission from 2009-10 academic year admissions. A committee for setting up the college met on the university campus on Saturday and decided to identify a suitable place for construction of buildings and the courses to be offered.

Vice-Chancellor Y.R. Haragopala Reddy held discussions with panel members -- Engineering Faculty Dean Nageswara Rao, Andhra University professor Raju, Executive Council members DAR Subrahmanyam, I Ramesh and Officer on Special Duty N. Samuyelu on Saturday. The matter would be reported to the Executive Council and depending on their decision, the process would begin, Prof. Haragopala Reddy said.

Location

Locations being considered were the old sheds of Centre for Distance Education alongside the Vice-Chancellor’s office as that would get shifted into the new CDE building. Some classes would be conducted temporarily on the new building of CDE. The second location being considered was close to the Aquaculture Department for constructing new buildings. First year examination of B. Pharmacy will begin on August 11 at 23 centres in the ANU jurisdiction and 1,650 students would attend it. The M.Tech II semester examinations would begin at five centres.

Meanwhile, activists of the Student Federation of India burnt an effigy of capitalist nations for setting up universities in India.

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