ONGOLE: Acharya Nagarjuna University Vice-Chancellor V. Balamohana Das has asked colleges to appoint quality coordinators to improve educational standards and to stimulate competition among them.

Addressing an orientation programme for college principals here on Thursday, he asked the principals to nominate one lecturer as cultural coordinator in each college and ensure that the students took part in at least one cultural activity. Similarly sports coordinators should be appointed.

Prof Balamohan Das stressed the need for colleges to excel in extra curricular activities too. He said Acharya Nagarjuna University would have one of the best sports hostels in the country by February next year. The hostel would provide accommodation to 1500 students. He complimented SSN College correspondent Ramakrishna Reddy for donating Rs. 5 lakhs for the hostel. He called upon the philanthropists to come forward and help in development of the university.

YSR thanked

He thanked Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy for sanctioning 57 teacher posts to the university after a lapse of 13 years. This helped the university to regularise the services of five teachers working on contract basis in the post-graduate centre at Ongole for the last 13 years and appoint them as assistant professors. It could also enhance the salary of other 12 contract teachers here.

The Vice-Chancellor said the post-graduate centre had potential to become university and sought the help of local philanthropists to improve infrastructure facilities. He the centre can raise first floor on the existing building to have six more classrooms to partially solve its accommodation problem dogging it for several years. It can move to Pernamitta later where land has been allotted for development of a full-fledged university.

Earlier, Prof Balamohan Das told reporters that the university was planning to introduce five-year integrated course for post-graduation in some colleges on an experimental basis.

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