- Revenue and VSU officials visit site at Kakuturu
- 62.84 acres have already been allotted for VSU
In addition to the 62.84 acres land allotted for VSU in the village, the district administration will allot 30 more acres (abutting the old site) at Kakuturu, said the Collector. He told the VSU Vice-Chancellor C.R. Visweswara Rao and Registrar V. Narayana Reddy that the proposed site will be handed over to the university soon.
The MLA along with Nellore Revenue Divisional Officer M.Venugopal Reddy and the university officials visited the site at Kakuturu and held discussions with the villagers.
The officials assured to allot alternative sites for the people living in the locality.
The officials assured to allot site for laying approach road from the National Highway to the university site and asked the university authorities to start the works immediately. The university will prepare a draft progress report with an outlay of Rs.25 crore which would be submitted to the UGC in the first stage for getting the catch-up grant, the V-C said. Even as the speculation continues over giving affiliation status for the new universities, the government issued a fresh letter on July 27 to the universities stating that the recent orders issued on attaching professional colleges to JNTU, Anantapur, has been kept in abeyance.
Speaking to The Hindu, Registrar Mr.Narayana Reddy confirmed that the university officials received a fax message from the government on Monday, setting aside the transfer orders of MBA and MCA colleges to JNTU, Anantapur.
Meanwhile, members of the Nellore District Private Unaided Degree and PG Colleges Association, in a meeting held here on Monday night, urged the government to continue affiliation status for VSU.