The 135-year-old Venkatagiri Rajah’s College (VRC) and its allied institutions located in the heart of Nellore are in the thick of a new controversy. Amid demands for a change of management, the Government is stated to have begun efforts to take over the institutions.
The Government claims that the 10 acres land and buildings of the institutions, worth nearly Rs. 1,000 crore, are registered under endowment rules.
Mr. Anam Venkataramana Reddy, whose family was closely associated with VRC institutions, said the lands were registered under endowment rules only to ensure protection from encroachments. Recently, he wrote to the Endowments Department to take over the land and the institutions immediately.
Following this, officials led by the Deputy Commissioner for Endowments visited the college and gathered information about the property from the management.
There have been allegations that VRC and its High School Committee, with former MLA Anam Vivekananda Reddy as secretary and correspondent, have been badly mismanaged with enrolment down drastically. The affairs of the institutions have come to such a sorry pass that the committee is said to have written to the Government to stop aid as they want to run it on their own.
