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An open letter to Chief Minister

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Andhra University Teachers Association (AUTA) urged Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy through an open letter not to shift the Central University proposed to be set up here to Kadapa.

Shifting the Central University from here to Kadapa would greatly upset the people of the region who were expecting the State Government to give a boost to the region after the Chief Minister and also the Union Ministers assured that a Central institution would be established here but the same was shifted Kadapa with a lame excuse that sufficient land was not available here, AUTA president B.V. Appa Rao and secretary M. Prasada Rao said.

AUTA recalled the glory of AU, the oldest university in the State and its contribution to the fields of education and research and said it deserved the Central University status. Proposals had been sent to the UGC and the Union Ministry of HRD but the proposals remained at that stage.

Meanwhile none of the new universities being announced by the State Government was allotted to north coastal Andhra region being served by AU. If the new rural university being proposed with Etcherla PG Centre of AU as its headquarters with colleges in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram were affiliated to it, the existing AU would cater only to the colleges located in Visakhapatnam district. In that case these colleges could also be affiliated to the new university and the campus be elevated to a Central University, AUTA suggested.

This would give a big boost to the research activity of the university and the benefit could be passed on to the backward region.

AUT requested the Chief Minister to revive the proposal to elevate AU to a Central University.

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