No room for PGCET office in VSU

Nellore: Though a separate campus has been constructed at a cost of Rs 23 crore for accommodating various teaching and non-teaching sections in Vikrama Simhapuri University (VSU), the officials failed to accommodate block for an important section such as PG CET office.

Highlights:

•  Officials have been paying huge amount of rent for maintaining the office outside the campus even though a campus was constructed at Rs 23 crore
•  Official says tenders have been invited for construction of a new building where the office will be accommodated

Still, the PG CET office is being run outside the campus paying huge amount of rent to private parties and the students wonder on decision of varsity for incurring huge expenditure for maintaining an office.

The USU was established in 2008 initially offering 12 regular and six self-finance courses with around 600 students. It started offering services in a rented building near Barashaheed Dargah till recently and the classes were being run in VR College campus in the city. 

Students studying in the varsity campus were also residing in two private hostel campuses in the city.

And, the state government allocated funds for constructing administrative building, classrooms and hostels for students at Kakuturu.

University administrative building was completed with four blocks, administrative building block, academic block, men’s hostel and girl’s hostel, with Rs 23 crore in 83.5 acres. Administrative block has 52 classrooms and three seminar halls. Academic block has 32 class rooms and one seminar hall. 

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the building in November 2017.

“Officials say there is no accommodation for PGCET office which is very crucial that takes up admissions. Why it is located outside the campus and how the government allowed to continue it? When there is no space, how an EC member has been allocated room who visits the varsity only during meetings?” asked a student angrily, who observed the conditions in the varsity.

In fact, many varsities are having EC members and there is no provision for the members for enjoying a room.

An official who does the job of scrutiny of applications was provided with a room and very recently a section that runs course on Mahatma Gandhi has also been running the classes in a room. But, the office for the official who conducts the entrance test is running operations from outside giving scope for any possible misdeeds.

Even senior officials like varsity registrar are also saying they don’t have space in the varsity campus for accommodating PGCET office. 

They say they had invited tenders for a new building where the office would be accommodated. Now, the office is at RTC Complex paying huge rent. When contacted, a senior official said that it was only space management and would accommodate it in the new building being built shortly.

By P V Prasad