GUNTUR: Students from Andhra Pradesh are now assured of a 20 per cent quota in the Nalsar Law University at Hyderabad.

The State Government passed an ordinance on Friday allotting 16 seats out of the total intake of 80 students to the five-year integrated graduate programmes being offered in the University, Minister for Technical Education M. Venkata Ramana Rao said on Sunday.

In a chat with reporters here, the Minister said the decision to allot a fixed quota of seats in the university had been taken by former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who had felt that students from the State should get some benefit since the then Government had allotted land and provided other infrastructural facilities for setting up of the university.

Open offer

Explaining some other initiatives taken by the Government, he said an open offer was being extended to entrepreneurs and industrialists to get polytechnics named after them if they donate land.

The State Government had launched 48 new polytechnics, which have no permanent buildings and were being run in Government Degree and Junior Colleges. Land donors could get the colleges named after them, he said.

The Government had already released Rs.148 crore towards development of infrastructure in the polytechnics, he added.