The Govt. has given affiliation status to 10 new Universities from 2010-2011 and each University may get nearly 100 or more colleges under its jurisdiction. The new Universities need to set up Examination section, academic section, confidential section, academic audit cell, college development cell and affiliation section etc.

The officials informed the Chief Minister that there are 45 Universities in Andhra Pradesh now compared to just 24 in 2005. Similarly there are 692 engineering colleges now compared to just 107 in 2000 and 262 in 2005 and the intake of students is now 2,67,645 compared to 32,056 in 2000 and 92,600 in 2005. While there are 1989 degree colleges now with an intake of 4,70,250 there were only 989 colleges in 2000 with an intake of 2,79,067 and 1661 colleges in 2005 with an intake of 3,92,690.

The Chief Minister was informed that there is a proposal for a uniform academic calendar for all universities and half-yearly performance report for which the formats designed and sent to all universities. There is also a proposal to organise short term training for Under Graduate teachers in each of the 23 districts and also facilities in District Resource Centres (DRC) in Government degree colleges will be utilised and to organise training programmes in employable skills for degree college students in districts at the DRCs.

The Chief Minister also said Rs.35 crores shall be sanctioned for construction of buildings for newly sanctioned Government Degree Colleges under RIDF-XVI (NABARD). He also agreed to release funds under re-appropriation for the English Language Labs in Government Degree Colleges. The Chief Minister also agreed for recruitment of 500 contract lecturers for this year only through department since the APPSC recruitment are getting delayed. Dr Rosaiah said he will direct the APPSC to speed up direct recruitment of 1017 lecturers.