{"id":1030072,"date":"2026-08-20T09:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030072"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:14:47","slug":"andhra-university-start-up-closure-sparks-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/andhra-university-start-up-closure-sparks-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra University start-up closure sparks concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VISAKHAPATNAM: Entrepreneurs and academics have raised concerns over the reported decision of Andhra University to close a NASSCOM start-up and incubation centre on the campus, arguing that the move is contrary to the objectives of the National Education Policy-2020. <\/p>\n<p>The university entered into a tripartite agreement with NASSCOM and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, in 2000 to establish a centre aimed at promoting start-ups, innovation and entrepreneurship. The centre was set up on the university campus with an investment of around Rs 27 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISAKHAPATNAM: Entrepreneurs and academics have raised concerns over the reported decision of Andhra University to close a NASSCOM start-up and incubation centre on the campus, arguing that the move is contrary to the objectives of the National Education Policy-2020. The university entered into a tripartite agreement with NASSCOM and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, in 2000 to establish a centre aimed at promoting start-ups, innovation and entrepreneurship. The centre was set up on the university campus with an investment of around Rs 27 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030090,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030072\/revisions\/1030090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}