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  • JNTU disallows 5,000 students.

    JNTU disallows 5,000 students.

    The Jawaharlal Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad has barred nearly 5,000 second, third and final year students from appearing for the B.Tech and B.Pharmacy examinations that are scheduled to begin from November 15. The students were barred as they had “insufficient attendance.”

    As per JNTU norms, students must have 75 per cent attendance to be eligible for the exams. However, a 10 per cent concession regarding the attendance is given on medical grounds but students who have below 65 per cent attendance are not allowed to take the exams.

    Meanwhile, the vice-chancellor (VC) of the JNTU, Hyderabad, Prof. D.N. Reddy, is under immense political pressure to allow such students to appear for the exams. Several ministers, MPs, MLAs and other public representatives are making repeated calls to the VC and are even sending recommendation letters asking him to allow the students to take the exams.

    Officials of the JNTU said that even though the problem of less attendance is a common occurrence every year, this year the situation is really bad as the politicians have become aggressive and some people have even threatened to hold demonstrations and dharnas on the university campus.

    “I can’t permit students who have less than 65 per cent attendance to sit for the semester examinations. The university is implementing the government’s orders on minimum attendance and any decision to relax the rule has to be taken by the government,” said Prof. Reddy.

    Senior professors opined that growing absenteeism was due to “non-serious students” taking admissions in engineering colleges given the availability of seats and the fee reimbursement scheme. “It is the non-serious candidates who resort to using pressure and involve politicians,” said a senior professor at the university, Prof. Chakradhar Rao.

    The university has directed all its affiliated engineering colleges to display the attendance of their students on the college notice board every month as well as to send an SMS to the parents of students whose attendance is irregular so that the parents are informed about their child’s attendance.

    Source: DC

  • T-call for educational bandh against AP Day.

    T-call for educational bandh against AP Day.

    The Osmania University Joint Action Committee has called for all educational institutions to remain closed on November 1, to protest the celebrations of AP Formation Day in the Telangana region.

    The OUJAC has urged managements of educational institutions to observe November 1 as “betrayal day” and said that students should boycott classes if the managements refuse to declare a holiday.

    Telangana agitators staged protests and demonstrations in the city on Sunday.

    The police arrested several protesters who tried to lay siege to the Chief Minister’s residence at Ameerpet and the camp office in
    Begumpet. Students also staged a dharna in front of Gandhi Bhavan. Meanwhile. the AP Private Schools Managements Association has said it will not declare any holiday on Monday, but individual schools can do so if they feel the situation in their localities warrants it.

    Fearing violent incidents because of the bandh call some private schools have declared a holiday on Monday and sent SMSes to parents.

    Colleges have not declared a holiday on Monday either but JNTU Hyderabad has postponed its mid-term exams for B.

    Tech and B. Pharmacy courses scheduled on Monday. These exams will now be held on November 8.
    Elaborate security arrangements have been made in the wake of the Osmania University Joint Action Committee’s call for all educational institutions to remain closed on November 1.

    The city police have four companies of the Rapid Action Force and 10 platoons of the AP Special Police standing by, in addi tion to the existing force.

    The commissioner of police, Mr A.K. Khan, said: “We have made elaborate security arrangements in the city as well as at Indira Park for the smooth conduct of the AP Formation Day celebration programmes. Telangana groups had approached us seeking permission to visit Gun Park and Indira Park.

    However, they are only allowed to visit those places in the afternoon after the official programme is finished. Violators will be prosecuted.”

    Traffic will not be allowed from DBR Mills towards Indira Park via Vartha lane and Park View Apartments and vice-versa from 6 am to 12 noon.

    The city police is also guarding the statues at Tank Bund after an unidentified youth torched the statue of Potti Sriramulu in the main hall of Telugu University in Public Gardens on Friday. The city police is also guarding the statues at Tank Bund after an unidentified youth torched the statue of Potti Sriramulu in the main hall of Telugu University in Public Gardens on Friday.

    Source: DC

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