13 teachers for 1,000 students

KURNOOL: The plight of Rayalaseema University in Kurnool is familiar: no money and shortage of faculty. About 1,000 students study in this university with 16 courses. Of these, only 13 are available to students. Only five of them are regular courses. Only 13 staff members are there to teach 1000 students. The state government’s recruitment of 45 teach staff has not begun yet.Even the non-teaching staff, appointed on a contract basis, are very few in number. There are not enough classrooms. About 20 additional buildings are required apart from two hostels.While the government has allotted 120 acres of land to the university, most of it has been encroached by land grabbers. The varsity was supposed to be developed into a model university with Rs 150 crore, apart from an engineering college, a girls hostel and an archaeology museum. but none of the plans has been materialised.Though the government has released Rs 50 to Rs 100 crore for newly set up universities in Telangana, it has provided only Rs 3 crore for the Rayalaseema University in the last two years. Vice-chancellor J V Prabhakar said funds are not sufficient even to pay salaries to skeleton staff.