Anantapur: University Grants Commission (UGC) team, out to review various universities, was impressed with the performance of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). UGC committee visited the university for two days to review the academic and infrastructure development besides the staff position and quality of teaching.
As per sources, to confer the university with 12B status, UGC team visited the university to study its eligibility making it qualified to receive grants from the commission. The two-day inspection of the facilities comprised of power point presentation made by the university authorities. After the scrutiny, the team returned impressed with the pace of development during the past one year of the university's existence as an independent entity under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor Gandhi, after the split of JNTU into three autonomous universities in Hyderabad, Anantapur and Kakinada.
JNTU Vice Chancellor and Registrar Vijay Kumar are all set to visit England to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Portsmouth University. The MoU is signed with an objective under which several exchange programmes would be undertaken apart from recruitment of foreign students. Moreover, the process of filling 130 posts would soon be completed, once the government approves the formal recruitment of teaching faculty in the sanctioned posts.
