Hyderabad, April 20: Tension prevailed on the campus of the English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) on Tuesday as students protested the university’s decision to abandon its plans to build a campus on a 100-acre site at Pochampally in Nalgonda district.
On Monday, the university proctor, Mr Harish Kumar Vijra, had told this newspaper that the Eflu has put off its plans to set up a campus at Pochampally as the Eflu Act, 2006, did not permit it to set up its headquarters campus outside Hyderabad.
On Tuesday, hundreds of students gathered in front of the administrative block. They wanted the university vice-chancellor, Professor Abhay Maurya, and the proctor to offer an explanation.
The Telangana students union even accused the varsity of “favouring” the Andhra region by proposing to set up a centre in Visakhapatnam instead of Pochampally.
Following the protests, the university officials retracted their earlier statement. Distancing himself from the proctor’s statement, Prof. Maurya said the proctor was “not authorised to talk on the issue” and that the university is doing its best to set up a campus on the same site although existing rules do not permit them to do so.
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