The Krishna University will collaborate with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District), an independent U.S. government and taxing body, to offer a post graduate diploma course in water, waste water resource treatment technology from the academic year 2016-17.
“The talks with the Chicago-based body have been completed for collaboration for exchange of teaching expertise and scientific information to offer the one-day diploma course. Applications will be invited from the interested science students soon”, Krishna University Vice-Chancellor S. Ramakrishna Rao told The Hindu .
The academic collaboration with the U.S governing body was aimed at grooming candidates in the arenas of study on water quality and various parameters of water including brackish and sweet water, said Mr. Ramakrishna Rao. However, teaching in technologies in drinking water treatment would be one of the focussed areas of the course.
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The Krishna University will also offer a one-year diploma in aquaculture technology and management from the academic year 2016-17. “The course in aquaculture will fill the gap between the entrepreneurs and the aqua companies, which desperately in need of pond managers and other middle-level technical staff”, said
The candidates would be attached to the local aquaculture ponds for the period of three months to get expose to the methods in aquaculture and problems being faced at the ground level. “Given flourish aquaculture operations in Krishna district, the university will initiate a deep study on the aquaculture through the aquaculture industry, helping it to solve the existing problems on all fronts”, opined Mr. Ramakrishna Rao.
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Building works
The Andhra Pradesh State government has in principal allocated Rs. 40 crore for construction of the university’s own buildings at Rudravaram near Machilipatnam during the Krishna University’s first executive council meet, held on Tuesday in Hyderabad. “Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is likely to lay foundation stone for the building works to be taken up by the Central Public Works Department in early April”, said Mr. Ramakrishna Rao.