In another milestone, the prestigious educational institution, Vellore Institute of Technology had completed its 1st phase of buildings proposed in Amaravati, the Capital of Andhra Pradesh. On Tuesday, Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had inaugurated the newly-constructed buildings of VIT University — Amaravathi campus. The two blocks were named after as Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Academic block and Sarojini Naidu hostel block.
While delivering keynote address, the Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said Amaravati is all set to become world’s knowledge hub soon. “VIT is one of the top 10 colleges in India. I congratulate the Chief Minister for encouraging world class institutions as well the Management of VIT for completing 1st phase in a record time”, he said, “if I could get chance I would pray god to give back childhood which is a plain life”.
“I am happy, the dream of Capital is reality now. The efforts put by the Chief Minister to convert Amaravati as Knowledge, Health, Education Hub are certainly be appreciable”, he applauded. The Chief Minister, Chandra Babu Naidu, said, “we are working hard to build Capital as pollution free blue and green city. We will build Amaravati as one of the best Capital in the world. We set target to make Capital as Knowledge Hub”.
The Chancellor of VIT, Dr. G. Viswanathan, said that the state government had allocated 200 acres of land for the VIT University campus in Amaravati
and two kilometers away from the Secretariat complex. He also described the inauguration of VIT campus in AP as a landmark not only in the VIT history but also AP history as VIT is the first private University to come up in the capital Amaravati.
Viswanathan also said that 630 students from 24 states were pursing higher education at the VIT Amaravati campus. Vice-chancellor Dr. Sudhakar said that the key features of the VIT University Amaravati campus were including application oriented academics, engineering clinics to implement and innovate and also mandatory internship experience in the industry. He also said the VIT University had adopted three villages Sekhamuru, Ainavole and Velagapuri to take up development activities.
Apart from the State legislative Assembly Speaker Dr. Kodela Shivaprasad and many Ministers, State’s Government Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar, Education Department Spl Chief Secretary Aditya Nath Das and others also participated in the program.