Nellore: Vikrama Simhapuri University is contemplating to launch a constituent engineering college from next academic year. VSU vice-chancellor, Prof. G. Rajarami Reddy, has revealed this while speaking to this newspaper here.
According to Prof. Reddy, English, computer sciences, chemistry, biotechnology, business administration and physics are the basic sciences that need to be taught in the first year of engineering courses.
As the university offers all these basic sciences with state aid as regular courses, the engineering college proposed to be started will have regular faculty undertaking teaching tasks along with the laboratory facilities under infrastructural component.
The UGC’s new scheme Rashtriya Uchchatar Saksharata Abhiyan, the flagship programme under XII plan, is promoting the establishment of government engineering colleges where no such college exists. This forms the priority for UGC under the said scheme as category “A”, which is a factor of immediacy for the UGC to sanction a government engineering college.
In Nellore, where there is no government engineering college, the university takes the initiative to apply for such provision and on its approval, Rs 26 crore to start off. In the vice-chancellors’ meeting held at Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE), Hyderabad, on Friday, the University got an oral assurance to start its constituent engineering college on the submission of a proposal, next week, under RUSA scheme.
Apart from providing financial support, the RUSA scheme also ensures to appoint assistant professors on the request of the universities. With strategic geographical advantage and the land for the university being cleared at Kakutur village, the university rearing to start its constituent engineering college and pharmacy college on its campus received a big boost with this assurance.
