Andhra Pradesh Magazine English May 2016 | Page 33

(CESS) soon. The vision of the university is to be the
best one in the Amaravati capital region, said ViceChancellor Prof. Rajendra Prasad. The tie-up with the
University of Panama has worked well and over 40 students from Panama have been given PhD admissions
here in the past three years. The proposed tie-up with
the Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre (EASTC),
Tanzania will materialise in a month, according to him.

A.P. pilots solar energy storage project

Andhra Pradesh will set an example to other States in
integration of solar energy with the power grid when
the proposed 100 MW storage capacity is created in the
green energy corridor coming up in Anantapur and
Kadapa districts. It is a pilot project being supported by
the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). the
energy storage facility would help in automatically adjusting the frequency when solar, wind or hybrid energy
is exported to the grid. “No other state is creating solar
energy storage, which is an emerging concept in the entire world.

cM launches ‘chandranna Sanchara chikitsa’

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched ‘Chandranna Sanchara Chikitsa’, a mobile medical unit, supply
of rotavirus vaccine, and injectable polio vaccine programme here on Wednesday coinciding with his birthday. Mr. Naidu also inaugurated a CT scan facility
provided by Krsnaa Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd at Tekkali
through a remote from here. He said that 275 mobile
medical units would serve as primary health care centres in villages. They would conduct fixed day clinics
twice in a month, and these clinics would maintain the
electronic medical record of every beneficiary, he
added.

Discoms acquire gvk power plant

Andhra Pradesh power distribution companies have acquired the 216 MW gas-b