Sunday, February 6, 2011

SVU POST-GRADUATE Centre : KAVALI

PROFILE
Sri Venkateswara University Post-Graduate Centre, Kavali owes its origin to the initiative of Sri D. Ramachandra Reddy the architect of Visvodaya who started the P.G. Course in Economics and M.Com. in 1972 and 1973 respectively in Jawahar Bharathi Degree College. In 1973, M.Com course was started. These two courses were handed over to S.V. University in April, 1978 when Prof. K. Satchidananda Murty was the Vice-Chancellor. During the tenure of Prof. M. Santhappa - the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of S.V. University in 1979 - two courses in science viz., Physics and Zoology were added and Prof. K. Sasirababu was appointed as Professor of Zoology and Special Officer of the P.G. Centre. The Science Departments were shifted to its own campus of 78 Acres in 1984. The Economics and Commerce Departments were shifted in 1987. The two former Special Officers Prof. K. Sasirababu and Prof. G. Raghava Reddy contributed a lot for the growth and development of the Centre.

The Centre has four regular Departments: Commerce, Economics, Physics and Zoology and four Self-supporting Courses: M.C.A.,M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Mathematics and M.B.A.

Besides teaching, research (M.Phil & Ph.D.) is undertaken in Economics, Commerce, Physics and Zoology. Since inception 7,500 Post Graduates were produced, 110 Ph.D and 200 M.Phil degrees were awarded, 25 Books and nearly 1000 Research papers were published. Considerable number of Major and Minor Research Projects were completed with the assistance of various funding organizations - UGC, ICSSR, ICMR, DST, DBT, etc.

The Library has 17,500 books and is contributing to 40 Journals and magazines.

The Centre has NSS unit. Almost all the students are members of N.S.S.

Hostels for Men and Women : Student representatives along with hostel authorities run the hostel. Present hostel inmates including research scholars are 345, out of which 76 are women.
Site   :http://www.svupgckavali.page.tl/
PRIZES AND MEDALS
M.Sc. Zoology : Padmanabhuni Narasimham Chetty Memorial Prize.
M.A.Economics : Prof. G. Raghava Reddy Book Prize        

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