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HYDERABAD: After three days of poor response from students, Osmania University has decided to postpone the ongoing first semester examinations of MCA second and third year courses.

They will now be held from January 29 along with other PG examinations.

Details on website

The detailed time table will displayed on the website www.osmania.ac.in soon. However, those students who have written three examinations held from December 27 to 29 need not appear again for those papers.

The decision was taken after Vice-Chancellor T. Tirupati Rao met the Higher Education Minister Damodar Rajnarsimha and apprised him of the situation.

‘Principals not keen’

He told the Minister that the principals of examination centres were not keen to conduct fearing disturbances and pressure from the agitators.

Out of the 11 examinations of MCA second and third year scheduled from December 27 only three could be held. The response was poor on the all three days as students boycotted them demanding withdrawal of cases booked against those agitating for Telangana.

OU authorities said that only 565 candidates out of 8,125 appeared for the second year exam on the first day while 321 students appeared out of 5,396 for the third year exam. On the third day 634 students out of 8,125 took the test on Wednesday.

Visakhapatnam, Dec. 24: The Andhra University authorities closed down all the hostels and vacated rooms as a preventive measure to check any unrest after Srikrishna Committee submitted its report on December 31.

The university has over 3,400 students pursuing their studies in engineering, arts, commerce and law. The research scholars and foreign students were however were allowed to stay back.

The students normally stay back in the hostels during winter vacation and prepare for their final examination and some who had completed their studies prepare for competitive examinations.

Last year, the students formed Samaikhya Andhra Students Joint Action Committee and staged serious dharnas. Some of them launched an indefinite fast and shifted to hospital. Top political leaders called on the striking students expressing their support.

“In fact Andhra University became the major forum for the Samaikhya Andhra after the trouble broke out in Telangana,’’ said Samaikhya Andhra Students joint action committee state convenor Adari Kishore.

Mr Kishore Kumar, who is currently on tour of various universities in coastal Andhra, told this correspondent said they would organise peaceful dharna in case the committee gave an adverse recommendation bifurcating the state into two. He said there was a meeting in Ongole on Thursday in which it was resolved to appeal to coastal MPs to resign in case of adverse report.