Management of Koneru Lakshmaiah University (KLU) is proposing to take up alumni into various boards for all round development of the deemed university.
The decision was taken in the two-day Alumni Silver Jubilee Celebrations of 1985 batch held on the campus at Vaddeswaram village recently. Engineers who settled in different professions across the globe held discussions with the university management during the meet. The past students assured to give guest lectures and provide scholarships for merit students in each stream.
KLU vice-president Koneru Raja Hareen said the university has decided to absorb alumni into research, advisory boards and Board of Studies in each department. “We asked the alumni, who owned industries and companies, to mentor the young entrepreneurs of KLU and they accepted to help the university in all aspects,” said Mr. Hareen.
Speaking to The Hindu , an alumnus Baveneni Suresh, who is the director of Steel Exchange of India and was second in producing secondary steel in South India, said the KLU management was keen on making the institution top in the country and sought cooperation of the alumni in this regard.
Another past student, S. Pulla Reddy, managing director of SP Software Limited, Hyderabad, said the alumni batch will give lectures to inspire the students for elevating into good positions.
“The speeches of successors who are providing jobs to some thousands of people will certainly help the budding engineers to become good entrepreneurs and solve unemployment problem to some extent,” said Revuri Ramesh who is working as IT management consulting executive at North Carolina in US.
Alumni who attended the celebrations expressed their willingness to offer internships and provide jobs for toppers of KLU, said D. Purna, who is the CEO of Pioneer Corporate Services at Virginia in US.
Past students, S. Venkatadri, working as Superintendent of Central Excise department, Hyderabad, S. Subramanian, IT specialist in US and other students of the alumni batch participated.
