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State to get IT varsity
Posted by Srini Uppala | December 1, 2007 | 280 views
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Loading ...The state cabinet approved the setting up of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Kno-wledge Technologies with headquarters in Hyderabad. Its constituent units will be set up at Basar in Adilabad (Telangana), Nuzividu in Krishna district (Andhra) and Idupulapaya in Kadapa district (Rayalaseema). Its courses will start next year. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy had surrended huge tracts of land at Idupulapaya and still owns some land there.
Three eco-tourism projects — botanical gardens, night safari and bird park in Kothaguda reserved forests in Ranga Reddy district — were approved. The projects will be named after former chief minister Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy. Hyderabad-based De Lara Tourism Corporation Ltd will develop the botanical gardens on 128.97 acres at Rs 188.94 crore in four years. TRAC India, Hyderabad, bagged the night safari project costing Rs 70.16 crore on 112.70 acres. The bird park will be developed at Rs 32.71 crore by the Mumbai-based Hyderabad Bird Park and Gardens Pvt Limited on 30.71 acres.
The cabinet approved a proposal to borrow Rs 2,422-crore from the Japan Bank for International cooperation to construct a 71.3-km stretch of the Outer Ring Road phase II.
SOURCES:
Deccan Chronicle
Topics: Education, Information Technology |
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