After a gap of over a decade, works to set up necessary infrastructure for the Sammakka Sarakka Central Tribal University in Telangana have picked up pace.
The university authorities invited tenders for taking up construction of compound wall spanning 8.07 km covering the 337 acre land of the varsity. Once the tender process is finalised, construction of the compound wall is planned to be completed by February next year. The work is preceded by a topographical survey of the campus with details of geographical contours enabling preparation of a master plan for the varsity that has been sanctioned to Telangana as part of the A.P. Reorganisation Act 2014.
The university authorities planned to construct two separate hostel blocks of 500 capacity each for girls and boys, a lecture hall complex (25 lecture halls, two mini conference halls and a larger hall), a 24-room guest house and a sports area. This is in addition to a multi-purpose auditorium.
The Central Government sanctioned ₹889 crore for the university appointing the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) as executing agency. “The Central Government has sanctioned ₹100 crore for the current academic year as against the proposals for ₹200 crore sent with an assurance that the remaining amounts will be released in the due course,” the University vice-chancellor Y.L. Srinivas told The Hindu.
The university’s building committee met recently to finalise the modalities for appointing an architectural firm to prepare a master plan for the university with different blocks and the process has been initiated in this direction few days ago. “There is no constraint on funds. But the process that should be followed seeking nod from the CPWD and others are taking lot of time,” Mr. Srinivas said.
The university plans to introduce B.E. (computer sciences) with the approval of AICTE from the next academic year while the M.A. education programme, a five year integrated course, had already received permission from the NCTE. This is in addition to M.Sc. applied pharmaceutical sciences and MedTech (in collaboration with IICT and University of Hyderabad and IIT Hyderabad) that will be introduced next academic year. Apart from MA courses, the university is actively working on introduction of MBA integrated programmes in management studies.
