Anantapur: Students of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) have a reason to cheer, as they now would be entitled with the benefit of two degrees - one from the UK and the other from the parent university itself.

Addressing a press conference here recently, Vice-Chancellor Krishna Gandhi said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Portsmouth University in United Kingdom has been signed by our university according to which students from the university can go for study to the UK in the fourth year under an exchange programme.

The VC and the Registrar Vijay Kumar left to United Kingdom on January 24 and returned to the country recently.