All educational institutions in the T- region are opened from yesterday after a gap of nearly one month. Most schools, junior colleges and professional colleges have been closed since September 13 on account of the Sakala Janula Samme. The managements of private schools have decided to open after the state government threatened to derecognise them if they did not. Corporate junior colleges have already sent SMSes to parents informed them that classes are resumed from Tuesday.

Professional colleges have also decided to reopen engineering, B. Pharmacy, MBA, MCA, and B.Ed courses from Tuesday. About 40,000 government schools in the T-region will function normally from Tuesday since the Telangana Teachers’ JAC has decided to return to work. They held talks with the minister for secondary education K. Parthasarathi on Monday. They also met CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy later and conveyed their decision to resume work from Tuesday. “We have decided to call off the strike in the interest of students. All the schools in the T-region will work normally from Tuesday,” said Mr S. Sreenivas Reddy, chief adviser, Telangana Private Schools’ Association.

The managements of government-run professional colleges said they will resume classes from Tuesday. “We have decided to call off the strike. However, we are ready to support the decisions taken by the Telangana JAC in future for the cause of Telangana state,” said Dr K. Suneel Kumar, chairman, T-region, Consortium of Engineering and Professional Colleges Managements Association. Some private schools have been unable to conduct quarterly exams and have scheduled the exams from this week. None of the government schools have conducted quarterly exams.

Source : DC

Hyderabad : As the ‘holidays’ declared by the college managements owing to the general strike come to an end on Sunday, students and managements are not sure whether educational institutions will be reopened or not.

Though the managements desperately want to resume classes, fear factor seems to be working on the managements belonging to people from the Coastal Andhra region. Colleges run by Telangana region people, however, are bit confident of starting the classes from Monday. “There is lot of pressure from parents to open colleges but we are worried about the opposition from parties and groups supporting the general strike. We will be the first target,” admits correspondent of an engineering college.

He says managements from Telangana region can at least request the protestors and explain their view point. “But we will not be in a position to even talk to them as they will accuse us of belittling the movement,” he says. However, different associations of college managements are confident that the protesters will not have objection to opening the colleges.

“We have already lost 25 days and the future of our students will be in jeopardy if the closure continues. First year students have hardly attended classes while final year students are serious about their preparations for exams and their plans of higher studies,” said the principal of an engineering college. “We have extended our support to the Telangana agitation and now the JAC should give the education sector some space to put things back on track,” said correspondent of a college, who is a strong supporter of Telangana cause.

Another factor worrying the colleges and students is the beginning of the placement season. This is the time companies, look to visit colleges for placements and the schedule will go haywire if the closure continues.

Source : The Hindu