Kakinada: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) has set up special research and development cell as part of the Rs. 60-crore World Bank-aided technology quality improvement programme, according to its Vice-Chancellor K. Raj Gopal.

He told a press conference here on Sunday that the aim in creating the cell was to provide research facilities on the campus to 100 research scholars every year for a period of three years. The research facilities, he said, would be made available at two places in Hyderabad -- JNTU campus and Institute of Science and Technology -- and two places outside -- JNTU Colleges of Engineering, Kakinada and Anantapur.

One more project

Another project launched by the university was the technology business incubation centre at Hyderabad in cooperation with Hoseo University of South Korea. The Rs.10-crore project, he said, was aimed at providing opportunities to entrepreneurs to develop a product of their own on the premises. The necessary R&D support would be extended by the university. It would be helpful to those who cannot invest on the infrastructure for developing certain products, he added.

Prof. Raj Gopal said the Kakinada JNTU College was accorded autonomous status and it can introduce new courses of its choice.

Hospital works

The Government General Hospital, the teaching hospital serving both the Godavari districts, is being provided with an underground drainage facility at a cost of Rs.1 crore.

Besides, provision of internal drains on the hospital campus is also under progress at a cost of Rs. 3.5 lakhs.

At a press conference here on Monday, hospital superintendent C. Hanumantha Rao said that a modern mortuary at a cost of Rs. 80 lakhs would come up near the existing mortuary.

Of the eight works sanctioned at a cost of Rs. 4.5 crores for the hospital, execution of six works, including orthopaedic ward, nurse quarters, RMO quarters, cancer ward's construction and renovation of hospital buildings was in progress.

Dr. Hanumantha Rao claimed that the SRMT maternity block, consisting of three floors and 120 beds, would be a model one.

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