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Ganta appeals to Smriti to start tribal varsity this year
AP Minister for Human Resources Development Ganta Srinivasa Rao, here on Thursday appealed to the Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani to direct the authorities to begin the academic year of the proposed Tribal University and Central University in Andhra Pradesh this year itself.
New Delhi: AP Minister for Human Resources Development Ganta Srinivasa Rao, here on Thursday appealed to the Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani to direct the authorities to begin the academic year of the proposed Tribal University and Central University in Andhra Pradesh this year itself.
The Minister said that he met Smriti Irani yesterday and appealed to her to fulfil all the commitments made under the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 regarding the educational institutions as AP could not afford any delay in establishing all the promised institutes of excellence. Reminding her of the promise to establish a Petroleum University, he appealed to her to release all grants under the NAC Accreditation to the IIT, IIM and IIIT institutions, etc., in the State.
Reiterating that transfers of teachers would take place only either at the beginning or at the end of academic year henceforth, he added that if any teacher's service tenure were to end in between, then the same would be extended till the completion of the academic year so that students would not face any problems regarding their syllabus.
Asked about the plight of Telugu students in Tamil Nadu who were being forced to forgo Telugu paper, the Minister said the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had written to his Tamil Nadu counterpart seeking her intervention. The AP Minister for Information P Raghunatha Reddy had visited Chennai and met Jayalalithaa too. He said the AP government was hopeful of a positive outcome.
A team from Cambridge University will visit Vijayawada on March 25 to discuss the establishment of a wing of the same in the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. He said he was accompanying the Chief Minister to UK and would hold talks with the university authorities.
