Concerned that the fallout from the division of Andhra Pradesh might leave them with people outside Telangana who would be upset with the developments, the government may decide to reach out to Seemandhra by giving them elite educational institutions.
Sources in the human resource development ministry suggested that the government is considering an IIT in Visakhapatnam, an IIM at VIjayawada and the conversion of Andhra Pradesh university in Visakhapatnam into a Central university to ensure that the newly created state will not be left without major education institutions.
Andhra Pradesh will leave the Seemandhra region without any of these institutes as all of them are located in Hyderabad in the Telangana region.
“Most of the highly developed educational institutions are going to the state of Telangana. The Centre should immediately grant the above said institutions and they should come into operation within a year,” the representations said.
They said the existing Andhra University in Visakhapatnam should be accorded central university status as there is not a single central government-run institute in the Andhra or the Rayalaseema region.
