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An occasion for them to learn as they travel

Special Correspondent

VVIT novel idea to update GK of its students

Copies of The Hindu being supplied to travelling students
Majority read the main news on front page to catch up with the latest

— Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

Making the most of it: Students of Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology glancing through the pages of The Hindu on their way to Nambur by bus.

GUNTUR: Out of the 40 engineering colleges in Guntur district majority are far away from one or the other major municipal town in the district, and students of at least 10 colleges travel between 16 k.m. and 55 k.m. to reach their institutions from district headquarters city.

Thus all of the day-scholars spend between 45 minutes and one and a half hours travelling in the college buses.

Nambur-based Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology has come up with a novel idea of providing copies of The Hindu newspaper to all its students travelling by bus from Vijayawada and Guntur so that they could spend their waiting and travelling time gainfully.

Beginning this academic year all the senior students are at least glancing through the headlines.

"Sports is my favourite portion of the The Hindu and three pages of sports is a full complement for me providing news from the Formula Racing to world of Cricket," observed N. Chaitanya.

A couple of other boys were also ardent followers of some of the columns on the sports page.

Majority, however, read the main news on front page to catch up with the latest in the arena of politics -- both state and international.

‘Quite informative’

A couple of girls, who were regular with the Young World, do not miss out on any of those columns as they find those quite informative even for a college-going student. Not many scanned through the Education Plus, but hoped that topics related to their academics, examination and future prospects for their stream of engineering would definitely make a good reading. College Chairman Vasireddy Sagar said that it was management policy to improve the communication skills of the students by setting up a language lab for which The Hindu reading habit was being cultivated among students. "While we were apprehensive of students positively responding to reading newspaper while in the travel, the demand was on the rise," he observed.

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