Andhra University

Andhra University was established in Andhra Pradesh in the year 1926. The University has more than 100 buildings in sylvan surrounding of Kailasa Hill. The Bay of Bengal is towards its front. At present the university is providing higher education mainly to students of 5 districts- Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam.  The University has 5 constituent colleges and 4 AU (Andhra University) campuses. The College of Arts and Commerce is the biggest constituent college in the University with 28 Departments offering 55 courses including 25 Diploma courses.


The University has 19 hostels for men with capacity of more than 3200 seats, and 4 hostels for women to accommodate more than 1100 candidates. Residential accommodation of 340 units of staff quarters is available in the University campus. The University is also having 2 Health Centres one at South Campus and the other at North Campus and a homoeo dispensary and three guesthouses, Faculty Club, Open Air Theatre and a Campus School for University Staff Children and indoor and outdoor Sports Facilities. The University is also having Student Services and Welfare Centers in the campus. The other infrastructural facilities available in the University include Academic Staff College, Computer Centre, Press & Publications Division Central Workshop and Photographic Division. The University is has 13 service centers/institutions in the campus like Agro-Economics Research Centre, Centre for Computer Aided Design, Centre for Technology Forecasting, Centre for Nuclear Techniques, Centre for Religious Studies, Centre for Systems Dynamics & Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Studies, Centre for SAARC Studies, Centre for Women's Studies, Delta Studies Institute, Institute of Public Sector Management, Institute of Transport Management, Institute for Yoga and Consciousness and Population Research Centre.

Presently, the Andhra University has 575 affiliated colleges to its credit. These colleges are spread across the 5 districts over which the university has jurisdiction.

In 1972 the University started Distance Education program in the following streams -
B.A., B.Com., B.Sc. (MPC, MPCS and MSCS), M.A. English, Hindi, Telugu, Economics, History, Politics & Public Administration, Sociology, Philosophy and Mathematics, M.Com, M.Ed., B.Ed., and eight P.G. Diploma Courses through Distance Education Mode. The School of Distance Education has 37 study centers across the state and a study center at Sri Venkateswara College Delhi. The enrolment in UG and PG Programmes in the School of Distance Education is about 97,000 students.

The Andhra University has following central facilities-

1. Library
2. Academic Staff College
3. Cyber Law
4. IQAC
5. USIC
6. Press and Publications
7. Training & Placement
8. Employment & Guidance Bureau
9. Horticulture
10. Health Services
11. Faculty Club
12. Sports
13. NSS

Courses Offered

The Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh offers the following Courses & Programs

College of Arts & Commerce
Diploma Courses (UG)
Acting	Pre-School Education
French	Russian
Hindi	Urdu
Japanese
Under Graduate Courses
B.Ed Special Education & B.Ed
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Performing Arts
Diploma Courses (PG)
Accounting Software	Sanskrit (Senior)
Adult Education & Development	Linguistics
Bank Management	Environmental
Cooperation and Rural Studies	Management
Functional Hindi & Translation	Transport Management
Human Resource Development & Industrial Harmony	Women's Studies
Human  Resource Management and Information Technology	Yoga
International Business
Sanskrit (Junior)
Post Graduate Courses
M.A Ancient History and Archaeology	M.A Quantitative Economics
M.A/M.Sc Anthropology	M.A Rural Development
M.A Applied Economics	M.A Sanskrit
M.A Criminal Justice	M.A Social Work
M.A Economics	M.A Sociology
M.A Education	M.A Telugu
M.A English	MBA Business Administration
M.A Hindi	M.Com
M.A History	M.Ed (special Education)
M.A Human Rights  & Duties	MHRM Human Resource Management
M.A Music	MJMC  Journalism & Mas Communication
M.A Philosophy	M.L.I.Sc. Library & Information Sciences
M.A Politics	M.Ed
M.A Psychology	M.A Adult & Continuing Education
M.A Public Administration
M.A Public Administration
M.A Mridangam
College of Engineering
Diplomas (UG)
Under Graduate
B.E./B.Tech./B.Pharm/B.Arch.
Architecture	Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology (Special),	Chemical Engineering with Petroleum Engineering (special),
Civil Engineering	Civil Environmental Engineering
Computer Science Engineering	Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering	Instrumentation Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Marine Engineering),	Naval Architecture
Mechanical Engineering	Metallurgical  Engineering
M.E./M.Tech.
Biotechnology	Mineral Processing Engineering
Chemical Engineering	Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Computer Science Technology	Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Control Systems	Pharmaceutical and Food Analysis
Electronic Instrumentation	Pharmaceutical Technology
Geo engineering	Pharmacognosy
Heat Transfer	Pharmacology
Hydraulics/Coastal Harbor Engineering	Power Systems and Automation
Industrial Engineering	Radar and Microwave Engineering
Industrial Process Instrumentation	Remote Sensing
Information Technology	Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
Information Technology	Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
Machine Design	Structural Engineering
Marine Engineering & Machine Handling	Technology Forecasting
Metallurgical Engineering
M.Sc./MCA
Computer Applications	Applied Chemistry
Computer Science	Industrial Chemistry
M.Phil
Applied Chemistry	Instrumentation
Geoengineering
Ph.D.
programme offered in all 16 Departments
P.G. Diplomas
Coastal Zone Management.	Prawn & Crab Farming &Management
Instrumentation
M.Sc. /M.Sc. (Tech.)
Aquaculture	Inorganic Chemistry
Applied Environmental Chemistry	Industrial Fisheries
Applied Genetics	Marine Biology & Fisheries
Analytical Chemistry	Marine Biotechnology
Applied Genetics	Marine Chemistry
Applied Geology	Marine Geology
Applied Mathematics	Marine Geophysics
Biochemistry	Materials Science
Biotechnology	Mathematics
Bio- Inorganic Chemistry	Mathematics & Computer Science
Coastal Aquaculture & Marine  Biotechnology	Meteorology
Botany	Molecular Genetics
Chemistry	Microbiology
Electronics	Nuclear Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry	Nuclear Physics
Environmental Sciences	Organic Chemistry
Environmental Studies	Physical Chemistry
Foods Drugs & Water	Physical Oceanography
Geography	Physics
Geology	Space Physics Electronics
Geophysics	Statistics
Human Genetics	Zoology
Hydrology
MCS
Computer Science & Statistics
M.Tech.
Atmospheric Sciences
Ph.D. & M.Phil
Programs offered in all the 18 Departments
College of Law
L.L.B  3 years	L.L.B   5 Years( in Affiliated colleges only)
Post-Graduate
LL.M. (Law

Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University

Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on June 12, 1964 at Hyderabad.

Today, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University has acquired a key place as  a quality institution  imparting both programmes in agriculture streams and conducting research in  wide-ranging application of Science and Technology for Agricultural development.

The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on November 7th 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding Parliamentarian Acharya N.G. Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter.

The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University was formally inaugurated on March 20, 1965 by Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the University by Late Smt Indira Gandhi, the then Hon'ble Prime Minister of India on June 23, 1966.

Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University has first class facilities for teaching and research. Some of the add on facilities to faculties includes Central Library, Ruska laboratory (Electron microscope building), University Auditorium, Planning and Monitoring Cell, Research Infrastructure and Infrastructure for Transfer of Technology.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941 / Calcutta / India)

Biography of Rabindranath Tagore: 

Greatest writer in modern Indian Literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators protesting colonial laws. Tagore's reputation in the West as a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of colonialism.

"When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose touch of the one in the play of the many." (from Gitanjali)

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in a wealthy and prominent Brahman family. His father was Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a religious reformer and scholar. His mother Sarada Devi, died when he was very young - her body carried through a gate to a place where it was burned and it was the moment when he realized that she will never come back. Tagore's grandfather had established a huge financial empire for himself, and financed public projects, such as Calcutta Medical College. The Tagores were pioneers of Bengal Renaissance and tried to combine traditional Indian culture with and Western ideas. However, in My Reminiscenes Tagore mentions that it was not until the age of ten when he started to use socks and shoes. Servants beat the children regularly. All the children contributed significantly to Bengali literature and culture. Tagore, the youngest, started to compose poems at the age of eight. He received his early education first from tutors and then at a variety of schools. Among them were Bengal Academy where he studied Bengali history and culture, and University College, London, where he studied law but left after a year without completing his studies. Tagore did not like the weather. Once he gave a beggar a gold coin - it was more than the beggar had expected and he returned it. In England Tagore started to compose the poem Bhagna Hridaj (a broken heart).

In 1883 Tagore married Mrinalini Devi Raichaudhuri, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. He moved to East Bengal in 1890. His first book, a collection of poems, appeared when he was 17; it was published by Tagore's friend who wanted to surprise him. In East Bengal (now Bangladesh) he collected local legends and folklore and wrote seven volumes of poetry between 1893 and 1900, including Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat), 1894 and Khanika, 1900. This was highly productive period in Tagore's life, and earned him the rather misleading epitaph 'The Bengali Shelley.' More important was that Tagore wrote in the common language of the people and abandoned the ancient for of the Indian language. This also was something that was hard to accept among his critics and scholars.

In 1901 Tagore founded a school outside Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, which was dedicated to emerging Western and Indian philosophy and education. It became a University in 1921. He produced poems, novels, stories, a history of India, textbooks, and treatises on pedagogy. His wife died in 1902, followed in 1903 by the death of one of his daughters and in 1907 his younger son.

Tagore's reputation as a writer was established in the United States and in England after the publication of Gitanjali: Song Offerings, in which Tagore tried to find inner calm and explored the themes of divine and human love. The poems were translated into English by Tagore himself. His cosmic visions owed much to the lyric tradition of Vaishnava Hinduism and its concepts about the relationship between man and God. The poems appeared in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yates, who wrote "These lyrics - which are in the original, my Indians tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention - display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long." His poems were praised by Ezra Pound, and drew the attention of the Nobel Prize committee. "There is in him the stillness of nature. The poems do not seem to have been produced by storm or by ignition, but seem to show the normal habit of his mind. He is at one with nature, and finds no contradictions. And this is in sharp contrast with the Western mode, where man must be shown attempting to master nature if we are to have "great drama." (Ezra Pound in Fortnightly Review, 1 March 1913) However, Tagore also experimented with poetic forms and these works have lost much in translations into other languages. Especially Tagore's short stories influenced deeply Indian Literature, and he was the first Indian to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. Tagore wrote his most important works in Bengali, but he translated his poems into English, forming new collections. Many of his poems are actually songs, and inseparable from their music. His written production, still not completely collected, fill 26 substantial volumes. At the age of 70 Tagore took up painting. He was also a composer, settings hundreds of poems to music. Tagore's song Sonar Bangla Our Golden Bengal became the national anthem of Bangladesh. He was an early advocate of Independence for India and his influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern India was enormous.

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BADRINATH

Guarded on either side by the two mountains Nar and Narayan, the Neelkanth Peak provides a splendid backdrop to Badrinath, one of the ‘Four Dhams’. One of the most celebrated pilgrim spots in the country, it plays host to the famous Badrinath Temple. Legend has it that Lord Vishnu came to the area, called ‘Badri Van’, or the berry garden, to meditate after Narad rebuked the Lord for being immersed in worldly pleasures. The main deity is a meditating Lord Vishnu.
Facing the temple at the bank of Alaknanda River is a hot water spring known as "Tapt Kund", a bath in which is very refreshing to all travellers. Dedicated to Lord Vishnu, the temple of Shri Badrinathji, is 5 m high, built in the form of a cone with a small cupola of a gilt bull and spire. The temple opens every year in the month of April-May and closes for winters in the third week of November. Even though legend dates the temple back to the Vedic age, Guru Adi Shankaracharya has established the present temple. The temple has three parts - Garbha Grih (The Sanctum Sanctorum), Darshan Mandap (for pujas) and Sabha Mandap (for devotees to assemble).

The temple of Yog Dhyan Badri, one of the five Badris is located at Pandukeshwar (1920 m), just 24 km short of Badrinath on Rishikesh-Badrinath highway. The image, depiciting a meditative posture of the Lord, is worshipped here. The Pandavas are said to have handed over Hastinapur to King Parikshit and retired here.

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SRI DURGA MALLESWARA SWAMY VARLA DEVASTHANAM,

INDRAKEELADRI, VIJAYAWADA.

BRIEF NOTES

Goddess Kanaka Durga manifested herself (Swayambhu) on the hillock known as Indrakeeladri situated on the left Bank of River Krishna at Vijayawada. The origin of this shrine is known to be of 8th century. The temple was constructed during the Regime of Mogalaya rulers. According to Sthalapuranam, Mogalaya Ruler Thanisha with the assistance of his Ministers Akkanna and Madanna managed the temple with head quarters at Kondapalli.

His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Sankara Bhagavatpadulu (Adi Sankaracharya) visited this temple during 8th century and worshipped the deity and installed “ SRICHAKRAM” at the feet of Goddess. This temple is of Smartha Agama Sampradaya. Sub-temples of Lord Sri Malleswara Swamy varu, Sri Nataraja Swamy temple are located on north east corner of Goddess. Sri Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Temple is located on north side of main temple. This temple is one of the 10 major temples of the state and one of the popular pilgrimage centre, and has been acquiring importance day by day.

PUBLICATION:

Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam, Vijayawada is published u/s 6(a) (ii) of the act 30/87 and it is under the administrative control of the Commissioner, Endowments Department, Hyderabad.

REGISTRATION:

Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam, Vijayawada is registered u/s 43 of APC & HRI Act 30/87

SOURCES OF INCOME:

The major sources of income of the temple is by way of hundials, fees for special Darshanam, sale of Sarees, Prasadams, Coconut halves, Rents on stalls, interest on investments, Transport and agricultural lands, Rusums of various poojas.