Annamalai University to become an affiliating university

Colleges in four districts can be affiliated to it, says Ponmudi

Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi said on Tuesday that Annamalai University, a unitary institution, would be converted into an affiliating university. “The institution is functioning as a unitary university, and several people, including [IAS officer] Shiv Das Meena who was an administrator there, had opined that it should be made an affiliating university. Colleges in Villupuram, Cuddalore, Kallakurichi and Mayiladuthurai can be affiliated to Annamalai University,” he said. As for Dr. J. Jayalalithaa University, which was established in Villupuram earlier this year by the AIADMK government, Mr. Ponmudi said that besides the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor, the institution remained largely non-functional.