PVNR centre a boost to Telangana studies: KU V-C
Warangal: Authorities, faculty members as well as students of Kakatiya University (KU), Warangal, thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for approving the proposal to establish a ‘PV Narasimha Rao Centre for Promotion of Social and Economic Reforms’ (Vidya Peetham) at the varsity. KU Vice-Chancellor Prof T Ramesh said the setting up the PVNR centre would […]
Warangal: Authorities, faculty members as well as students of Kakatiya University (KU), Warangal, thanked Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for approving the proposal to establish a ‘PV Narasimha Rao Centre for Promotion of Social and Economic Reforms’ (Vidya Peetham) at the varsity.
KU Vice-Chancellor Prof T Ramesh said the setting up the PVNR centre would help strengthen Telangana studies on culture, language, history, social and economic development, and it can also sponsor research on various subjects which were dear to the former Prime Minister.
“Through the centre, we can organise lectures by experts, seminars, conferences, workshops and training programmes. We can also preserve the legacy of PV by running a physical and digital library, and organise a variety of programmes on the life and contribution of the former PM,” he said. He said the authorities were also planning to run a half-yearly journal tentatively titled ‘PVNR Journal of Social and Economic Studies’ besides establishing and maintaining ‘PV Narasimha Rao Chair Professorship of Social, Economic and Literary Studies’.
“PV played a vital role in the establishment of Kakatiya University. He was also an alumnus of University Arts and Science College, Subedari, which is now a constituent college of KU,” Registrar Dr Ragi Mallikarjun Reddy said, adding his educational reforms resulted in the discontinuation of detention system, which was a bane for many students.
“In the field of higher education he brought about many reforms such as decentralisation of UGC and insistence on quality assurance which finally led to the establishment of NAAC. He was also a great visionary who laid stress on democratic values and freedoms,” Reddy said.
“He had a special concern for the development of Kakatiya University, and during his convocation address at the University he proposed that the University should have a centre for social change and development. Kakatiya University is now fully prepared for setting up such a centre,” said former Dean, Faculty of Arts, former professor Vooradi Srinivas.
“The varsity is already running similar centres, such as Women’s Studies Centre, Dr BR Ambedkar Studies Centre, Gandhian Studies Centre, and Telangana Study Centre. The faculty and staff of the University thus have the required expertise for running PVNR centre,” said a Ph.D scholar Mohammed Azam.
While it was proposed to have an Advisory Board of eminent scholars, civil society representatives and PV’s family members, there will be a Director appointed by KU from among the faculty for policy formulation and routine administration of the centre.
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