Chief Minister lays foundation stone for Centurion University

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 
Visakhapatnam

Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu today laid the foundation stone for Andhra Pradesh campus of Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM).

Speaking on the occasion, he called for a coordinated approach between universities and industries for skill development and knowledge based society with the government playing a role of facilitator. He was all praise for the university’s work and its approach of continuing education for those who dropped out, giving them skills and assured of its of co-operation. ‘The university may be poor but if you have knowledge, you can create wealth’, he said.

Chandrababu had said that various companies had invested Rs.100 crore in equipment on its campus. He complimented it for creating one lakh skilled persons. The campus will come up at Rallavagu in Vizianagaram district on 200 acres and for now the university will function at 60,000 sft at Anandapuram.

Vice president of CUTM D.N.Rao spaking on the occasion said that onle lakh that graduated from the university sine 2005, 70,000 to 75,000 got employment. ‘We wanted to replicate in Andhra Pradesh what we have been doing in Odisha with focus on North Andhra’, he said.

Managing Director of Dassault Systems Samson Khaou lauded the multiple entry and multiple exit systems of the university. Dassault that started as a start-up 35 years ago had 15000 employees worldwide with 2500 form the country in Research and Development.

More news about the Centurion university can be had on http://www.cutm.ac.in/