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Friday, Jan 21, 2005

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Six prisoners to receive Open varsity degree

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN 20. Six prisoners from Cherlapally and Rajahmundry jails are among the 6,332 students who would receive degrees and diploma certificates offered by the Dr B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) at its 13th Convocation to be held on January 29 at the University premises.

The BRAOU Vice-Chancellor, D. Ram Chandram said the prisoners taking the degrees include K. Jagdeesh, S. Pandu Ranga Rao, U. Shyam Sunder Rao, B. Venkanna and A. Venkateshwar Rao. The inmates of Cherlapally prison would receive the degrees personally.

The Chancellor of the University and Governor, Sushil Kumar Shinde, would give away certificates and gold medals while the Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would deliver the convocation address.

14 gold medals

The university gives 14 gold medals in different streams apart from two book prizes. K. Bapi Naidu of Vizianagaram bagged two gold medals for securing highest marks in B.A., B.Com and B.Sc courses and for highest marks in B.Sc.

Prof. Ram Chandram said 318 students would get their MBA degrees, the highest among all other subjects, indicating the popularity of the course.

He said realising the need for promoting job-oriented courses the university has plans to start P.G. Courses in sciences from the next academic year and certificate courses in emerging fields.

The University will also start nine new study centres exclusively for women candidates in Kadapa, Karimnagar, Kurnool, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Nellore, Nizamabad Tirupati and Hyderabad, thus taking the number of women study centres to 15.

Regional centres

He said in order to decentralise the administrative activities, the university has decided to open 23 Regional Coordination Centres (RCCS) of which four have been opened at Nalgonda, Khammam, Adilabad and Rajahmundry while work on the others is in full swing. Ramaiah, Rector, Ghanta Chakrapani, the Registrar and Pushpa Ramakrishnan, the Controller of Examinations, were also present.

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