Andhra Pradesh - Tirupati

Move to merge Veterinary varsity, ANGRAU opposed

TIRUPATI: With no reaction forthcoming either from the teaching or the non-teaching community of the Tirupati-based S.V. Veterinary University for the move to merge once again the newly formed Veterinary University with the Acharya N.G. Ranga ANGRAU, Hyderabad, the Student Union on Friday reiterated its demand for the immediate scrapping of the G.O. 249, recently released in this connection.

The Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Students Union leaders raking up the issue at this juncture assumes importance in the context of the first ever convocation of the S.V. Veterinary University scheduled to take place here on Monday with the Governor N.D. Tiwari as the Chief Guest.

The union leaders in a statement questioned the need for the present dispensation in the State to once again bring the Veterinary faculty under the ambit of the Agriculture University—ANGRAU, Hyderabad when the former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy had thought it fit to set up an exclusive university for the veterinary studies, duly recognising its growing importance.

They also asked in their statement, when the medical faculty had its own university, NTR Health University for its autonomous functioning, what was wrong in the Veterinary, Dairy Sciences, Fisheries studies etc having a university of their own for a more concerted development.

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