JNTUA College of Engineering a jewel of A.P.
The Hindu
The prestigious colelge will celebrate platinum jubilee on Saturday
The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Ananthapuramu, that is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee on December 18, is a jewel in the crown of State technological education in many aspects, as it is the first such institution to be established in the combined Madras Presidency producing one of the finest professionals the country boasts of.
G. Satheesh Reddy, Secretary of Department of Defence R&D and current Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), was a student of this college in the 1980-84 batch and will be the chief guest at the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations.
Under the Post-World War Reconstruction of Development Programme, the college was established in 1946 at the Madras University (now Anna University) campus at Guindy in Chennai, with an intake of 120 students, as till then only one Government Engineering College was existing covering Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. The college was inaugurated by Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar, the then Chief Minister of Madras state.
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