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Petroleum varsity may shift to visakhapatnam
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CM earlier announced that the university will be located in Rajahmundry but now wants to shift it to Vizag. Centre-appointed two member committee also recommends Vizag over Rajahmundry. To avoid political ramifications over the shifting, govt wants to keep the move a closely-guarded secret
The State government is learnt to have shelved the proposal to locate the Petroleum University at Rajahmundry and is all set to shift it to Visakhapatnam.
According to highly placed sources in the State government, the shifting is being kept a closely-guarded secret because, the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had repeatedly assured that the university would be located in East Godavari district. Any announcement at this juncture on moving the university to Visakhapatnam will have political ramifications, the sources added. Giving details of the move, the sources said that a two-member committee appointed by the Centre had visited and inspected several places around Rajahmundry and Kakinada, in the district.
The committee had come with a two point agenda=one to locate the university at a temporary venue and to run the classes from June-July, 2016. Secondly, the committee had to identify a land, for the construction of a permanent campus. The committee was headed by the Rae Bareli-based Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Director Prof G J Gupta.
The committee visited ITI campus in Kakinada and GIET campus in Rajahmundry to check the feasibility to run the classes of the university from July-August, 2016 at a temporary venue. The committee during its interaction had expressed that it wanted about 500 acres to set up a permanent campus. But, as such large extent of land is not available in Rajahmundry, the government had proposed to de-notify forest land of around 700 acres located by the side of the National Highway between Rajanagaram- Diwanchervu.
On the other hand, the committee which also visited Visakhapatnam is learnt to have marked Visakhapatnam as its first preference.
However, the State government reportedly inform the Centre that the Chief Minister had promised and already announced to locate the university at Rajahmundry, or anywhere in East Godavari. In the wake of the committee preferring Visakhapatnam, ruling party leaders started mounting pressure to re-locate the university at Visakhapatnam. Now the government is mulling to explain the move by pointing that it was the Centre-appointed committee which did not favour Rajahmundry or East Godavari for locating the university, hence it would be moved to Visakhapatnam, lest the State would lose the university.
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