Osmania university college of Engineering has postponed the first semester examinations of the final year engineering students due to Telangana protests on the campus. On Wednesday, OU vice-chancellor Prof Tirupati Rao had already announced that the ongoing semester examinations were postponed indefinitely except for engineering, pharmacy and hotel management students.
But there were severe protests by students from other streams demanding the engineering college to postpone the exams for final year students too. OU informed that the exams for engineering, hotel management and pharmacy in affiliated colleges will be conducted as scheduled. "OU college of engineering is autonomous institution and so we decided to postpone the semester exams of our final year students. There are only three exams left out and we will conduct them once peace resumes on campus. The exams have been postponed for only 300 final year engineering students studying on the campus.
However, we will start the next semester classes from this Monday for final year students" said Dr Venugopal Reddy, principal, OU College of engineering.
Meanwhile, OU which appeared like a battle ground on Wednesday with students and police clashes was relatively peaceful on Thursday. Students who were confined to the campus took out protest rallies all through the day and burnt effigies of Chief minister K Rosaiah for not taking action against police lathi-charge on students on Wednesday.The entrances of the university at Nallakunta and Tarnaka were closed and Police stayed away from the boundary line marked by the students.The next semester classes for students of the varsity will begin from Friday.
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