10th Academic Council Meeting held on 03-05-2019, at PJTSAU, Hyderabad

The 10th Academic Council Meeting of the Professor Jayashanakar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) was held on 03-05-2019 at the Conference Hall in University Auditorium, Rajendranagar. The Vice Chancellor of PJTSAU Dr. V. Praveen Rao has chaired the academic council meeting, Registrar Dr. S. Sudheer Kumar and Deans of various faculties and several internal and external members of Academic council were attended and participated in the deliberations held on academic and administrative issues concerned to the university and passed the resolutions. The academic council has passed the resolution for proposed to enhance the 100 B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture course seats from 563 to 663 (which include all categories) seats under payment and NRI sponsored quota. In which 75 seats will be filled under payment quota and remaining 25 seats will be filled under NRI sponsored quota. The payments seats will be filled as per the government norms and based on the merit secured in the Telangana EAMCET. Dr V. Praveen Rao, VC, PJTSAU has said that, the seats under payment and NRI quota will be filled after getting the final approval from the State government. In view of the growing demand for B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture course seats, the university has proposed to increase the seats under NRI sponsored and Payment quota added the VC. The Academic council has also gave the approval for the reintroduction of PG programme in Statistics & Mathematics at the College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, and also gave the approval for the reduction of seats in Agriculture Polytechnic course which is offering in university polytechnics from 330 to 220 seats. The other resolutions of academic council are as follows. The faculty of Home science name has changed to Community Science, the University Library name has changed to Knowledge Management Center, B.Sc (Hons.) community course seats were increased to 75 from 59 seats for the academic year 2019-20, the New Gold Medal sponsored in the name of " Professor Mohammed Taskeen AliNiaze Gold medal" by their Children who settled in US, which will be awarded to the student who secure Highest O.G.P.A in the M.Sc Agriculture course.Deans of various faculties Dr. J. Sathyanarayana, Dr. V. Vijayalaxmi, Dr. K. Sadasivarao, Dr. D. Vishnu Vardhan reddy were attended the meeting.