Visakhapatnam: Considering the growing variety of overseas college students enrolling at Andhra University, the school has decided to construct a new hostel for worldwide college students close to the Platinum Jubilee Guesthouse of the university. Around Rs 17 crore may be spent on the new structure. The five-storied building may have a total of 160 rooms. Tenders for setting up the new hostel have already been finalized, and work is predicted to start soon.
Speaking to TOI, outgoing vice-chancellor of AU, Prof G Nageswara Rao, said, “The varsity has four hostels for international college students, 3 for boys and one for women. The new hostel has been proposed considering the increasingly wide variety of foreign students within the varsity.” According to Rao, most of AU’s international students come from Ethiopia, Nepal, Afghanistan, and a few African nations. “We have provided important assistance, first-class training, and hospitality to college students worldwide. If they face any problems, we address them on precedence,” Rao maintained.
Nageswara Rao stated that the building could be named after famous mathematician-astronomer Aryabhatta. “The hostel will look like the Arybhatta satellite from the top of the building, and the design might be based totally on India’s first satellite tv for pc,” he stated.
The building will have certain eco-friendly building mechanisms, energy conservation, and water recycling. Andhra University was the first national university to set up an inexperienced construction in 2016. This hostel was supposed for international students and constructed on a price range of Rs four. Five crores.
The building becomes made, giving precedence to herbal lighting and airflow. The construction also includes earthquake-resistant technology.
Prof Rao further said that the load-bearing walls of the inexperienced construction built in 2016 had been manufactured from hole-center interlocking blocks. “The hollow-center interlocking blocks were manufactured from recycled cloth. These blocks even have a better ability for thermal insulation. We also will use similar inexperienced ideas to build the Aryabhatta howell.”
Eco-friendly HoG tech possibly to strengthen three trains from Vizag
Visakhapatnam: Three trains originating from the Visakhapatnam railway station (VRS) will probably be covered inside the list of trains to move on to the ‘head-on technology’ (HoG) era.
The AP Express (Visakhapatnam to New Delhi), Duranto (Visakhapatnam to Secunderabad), and Garibrath (Visakhapatnam to Secunderabad) are expected to get this era.
According to professionals, using HoG generation is eco-friendly as there’s no smoke or noise pollution; it also reduces carbon emissions with the aid of 700 mt in keeping with 12 months in line with the train.
Currently, the New Delhi to Mumbai Rajdhani Express has this technology.
Railway officials at the electric loco shed on the VRS are preparing a file of the movement plan; dependable assets advised TOI.
The pass, if taken, is anticipated to create 500 additional berths for passengers each day.
Speaking to TOI, a VRS professional said that HoG enables generating power from the locos (rail engines) rather than power generator automobiles for lighting fixtures and air-conditioning of LHB (Link Hofmann Busch) education trains.
Currently, there are around one or two powerful motors on the end of each teaching in every LHB rake in which the strength furnished to coaches is produced through a diesel generator.
Under the HoG machine, strength will be provided from overhead energy lines and disbursed during the train.
“According to our inner tips, the new HoG may be used on LHB training trains from October. This will no longer allow trains to shed themselves off the power cars, accommodate greater coaches, but will also shop power,” the senior railway reliable said.
According to railway officials, an energy automobile uses almost 65 to 70 liters of diesel to keep an hour in air-conditioned coaches. The railway spends nearly Rs 1. Five crores to Rs 2 crore annually on each electric vehicle.
“By getting rid of the energy automobile from the teach, we will add a passenger educate in its place as a consequence growing the variety of berths with outgrowing the train duration,” the railway professional defined.
According to specialists, HoG technology is green as there are no smoke or noise pollutants; it also allows decreasing carbon emissions by 700 mt in step with the year in grade with teaching. Currently, the New Delhi to Mumbai Rajdhani Express has this era.
