Classes would commence from next year beginning July/ August 2015
The classes for petroleum would commence from next academic year in the month of July/August
Kakinada/Rajahmundry: The exercise for establishment of the proposed Petroleum University in East Godavari district began on Saturday with two-member central team visiting many places in Kakinada and Rajah-mundry. The team consisting of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology director Dr.G.J Gupta and project advisor S.P. Mathur on Saturday visited the areas.
Dr Gupta told the media that the classes would commence from next academic year in the month of July/August. He said that initially the classes will be commence in temporary buildings. He said that the University will be built in three years time. Gupta said that the report would be submitted to the union government on proposed university in Andhra Pradesh. He said that in Assam Rajiv Gandhi Petroleum University was also conducting petroleum courses.
Joint engineering ent-rance examination wou-ld be conducted for students for admission into these courses. He said that East Godavari district was suitable for establishment of Petr-oleum University and all resources were available in the district for the same. He said that the Union government was keen about the University and it will be under the Union Ministry of Petroleum.
The team visited the buildings at government ITI at Kakinada, 55 acres of site at Chollangi village in Tallarevu mandal, government lands at Diwa-nchervu village in Rajanagaram mandal, Jegurupadu in Kadium mandal, NAC center at Bommuru (13 acres), Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gover-nment Arts College, Adikavi Nannayya Uni-versity and others.
Rajahmundry sub-collector V. Vijayarama Raju and the district joint collector R. Muthyala Raju expl-ained in details about the availability of lands and also availability of buildings for temporary accommodation.
Dr Gupta said that their team was studying the availability of buildings, library, recruitment of teaching and non-teaching faculty and others. The officials said that there were vast resources in the district such as oil explorations under Krishna Godavari basin which will be useful to the students.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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