UoH's needs would be met: CM

Andhra Pradesh chief minister, K Rosaiah, on Monday assured that the state government would take care of the needs of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) as well as its employees.

Rosaiah’s assurance in this regard comes in the wake of protests from opposition parties and a section of UoH employees and students. They were against allocation of the university’s land to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which is setting up a new campus here.

Addressing a press conference on the eve of the Prime Minister’s visit to the city to lay the foundation stone for the TIFR campus and to inaugurate the annual conference of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, Rosaiah said the UoH employees wanted land for house sites, “which will be given".

The chief minister said that those opposing allocation of land should realise that TIFR was a deemed research institute of the Department of Atomic Energy and not a private sector outfit.

He said that TIFR had finally agreed to set up its second campus in Hyderabad after extensive search of various locations in the country.

“There has been a lot of effort behind this,” he added.