The first convocation of the only agricultural university in Telangana Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) will be held on December 13 with 207 Post Graduate and Ph.D. students passing out. In all 970 Under Graduate students of 2014-’15 and 2015-’16 batches will also pass out. Of them 207 students from P.G. and PhD and 558 from Under Graduate courses will receive the degrees in person. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had ranked the university 12th out of 73 agricultural universities in the country. The university was also ranked third in South India. The PJTSAU has five agricultural colleges affiliated to it. A home science college and a food science and technology college are also affiliated to it.
The passing out batches are those enrolled in 2014-’15 and 2015-16. Seventeen students will receive gold medals.
The PJTSAU offers courses in agriculture, agriculture engineering and technology, home science and food sciences, among others. “Starting next year admissions to PG and Ph.D. courses in the university will be done as per ICAR’s national qualifying examination. Till this year the university used to conduct the examination,” said Mr. V. Praveen Rao, its Vice Chancellor.
The university could accommodate students and also do research and development because it instituted administrative reforms in the very first year, Mr. Rao pointed out. “Libraries were digitised and three virtual classrooms were set up this year,” he said.
In 2014 only three colleges were attached to the university. During the last three years two other agricultural colleges, one each at Palam, Nagar Kurnool and Warangal were added to the list. One food technology college also came up in Rudrur in Nizamabad, Mr. S. Sudheer Kumar, registrar of the university said.
