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Telangana salutes its ideologue
On 21 June 2011 Telangana lost its foremost ideologue of separate Statehood movement and a famed educator Prof K Jayashankar. Prof Jayashankar (1934-2011) is an unforgettable son of the soil, who started his career as a school teacher in Warangal and became Vice-Chancellor of a university in the same place. For around 60 years of his active life, he fought for separate Telangana State and is popularly known as a Telangana ideologue,
Prof Jayashankar birth anniversary today
On 21 June 2011 Telangana lost its foremost ideologue of separate Statehood movement and a famed educator Prof K Jayashankar. Prof Jayashankar (1934-2011) is an unforgettable son of the soil, who started his career as a school teacher in Warangal and became Vice-Chancellor of a university in the same place. For around 60 years of his active life, he fought for separate Telangana State and is popularly known as a Telangana ideologue, though he called himself a volunteer in Telangana movement.
As an inspiring intellectual and activist, he provided the moral and strategic leadership to the separate State movement from 1952 to the last minute of his life in 2011. It is unfortunate that he passed away before his long-cherished dream could become a reality. His contribution to formation of separate Telangana State is well-recognised, admired and appreciated.
He endeared himself to all sections of Telangana society. Another important dimension of his personality is his significant role in education as a teacher, researcher, teacher’s union leader and educational administrator. He achieved an outstanding success in all these roles.
He has the sole distinction of being effective in all the roles. He synthesised multiple abilities of his personality and could become a shining example in all these roles. Sincerity of purpose is the defining feature of these multiple roles. People reverently remember his role in improving the service conditions of teachers in government colleges when he served as the secretary and the president of the government college teachers association.
As principal of CKM College, as the Registrar of Kakatiya University and EFL University and as VC of Kakatiya University, he discharged his duties ably and set the gold standard in institutional administration. Prof Jayashankar was a great institution–builder.
By:Prof VS Prasad
(The writer is a former Director of National Assessment and Accreditation Council-NAAC )
