It was not the campus that they had been in when the students left some two months back. On their return, they were awestruck by the tastefully done elegant buildings in place of the ramshackle facilities.
Thanks to the 104th Indian Science Congress, the Sri Venkateswara University campus underwent a makeover befitting the occasion. All the buildings were not only given a colour wash, but the internal facilities were also redone to suit modern times. The granite flooring gave way to tiles, dull walls got painting in eye-catching colours, roads got tar-topping, pavements came up in places where there were none, and green saplings dotted the campus. The old rickety cots in the hostel blocks were replaced with new sturdy ones.
Registrar M. Devarajulu inspected the arrangements on the campus on Monday.
When the university management got the hostels vacated and sent the students home for two months and 17 days, the student unions raised a hue and cry, but the management was firm on implementing the decision in order to revamp the infrastructure.
Even Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, during an inspection of the campus before the Science Congress, commented that the bathrooms built during his period of study four decades ago had not been repaired.
The students were amused not only to see their hostel rooms having turned attractive, but also the transformed administrative building, college main building and the auditorium.
