The ground-breaking ceremony for a ₹1.45-crore power station was held on the campus of Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) on Thursday.
A 315-kVA sub-station and a 320-kVA generator will be installed near the School of Engineering and Technology. Vice-chancellor D. Bharathi, who participated in the ‘bhumi puja’ along with registrar N. Rajani, said the facility would ensure uninterrupted and high quality power to the campus, especially to the women’s hostel blocks ‘Sabari’ and ‘Kalyani’. She said the project would be completed in six months.
Executive engineer M.V. Srinivasulu, deputy executive engineer M.C. Krishna Reddy, TBI director Surya Kumar and academicians took part.
