Monday, September 6, 2010
Osmania University turns into battlefield
Osmania University turns into battlefield
Staff Reporter
Pro-Telangana students barge into Group I exam centre; police lathicharge stone-pelting mobs
Massive police contingents and barbed wire fencing at the centre
Protestors run out carrying question papers, burn them on the road
— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL
Chaotic situation: Pro-Telangana students removing the barricades erected by the police at B.Ed college centre in Osmania University on Sunday where APPSC exam was being conducted.
HYDERABAD: Pro-Telangana students disrupted the Group I preliminary exam at a centre on Osmania University campus by barging inside on Sunday, while similar attempts were thwarted by police at other places in the State capital leading to arrest of many, including public representatives.
The bandh called by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti on Sunday opposing conduct of the exam evoked little response, but protestors attacked RTC buses and commercial complexes at different locations.
Tense moments
Tension gripped the exam centre — Institute of Advanced Study in Education (IASE) — on Tarnaka side of OU campus with some protestors snatching question papers and burning them. Police had to lob tear gas shells as a lathi-charge failed to disperse stone-pelting mobs.
Activists of Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were the first to try to storm the centre 30 minutes before the exam, notwithstanding the presence of massive police contingents and barbed wire fencing at the centre.
They were stopped, bundled into vehicles and sent away. But, streams of students from different directions repeatedly tried to force their way in only to be whisked away by the police.
The see-saw clash continued when a batch of protestors came from English and Foreign Languages University side taking police off guard.
They pulled the barbed wire fencing and jumped over the IASE compound wall. Smashing the window with a boulder, they entered the exam hall and snatched question papers forcing the panic stricken candidates to walk out. Some candidates taking the exam too joined them.
“Is this the way to conduct Group-I exam? How can I write it with stones being hurled at me,” a candidate vented his anger at the police. The protestors ran out carrying question papers and answer sheets, tore and burnt them on the road. One of them, Ehwar, fell unconscious as he was thrashed by police.
Meanwhile, groups of students swelled outside and started hurling stones at the police forcing the latter to use tear gas shell to disperse them.
The Congress MPs, G. Sukhender Reddy, Madhu Yashki, M. Jagannadham, G. Vivek and K. Rajgopal Reddy, TRS and BJP MLAs, E. Rajender and Laxminarayana were taken into preventive custody near EFLU.
The area continued to be tense for some time with woman activists of the Progressive Democratic Students Union staging sit-in before the EFLU condemning the lathi-charge while others observed protests at the Arts College.
Staff Reporter
Pro-Telangana students barge into Group I exam centre; police lathicharge stone-pelting mobs
Massive police contingents and barbed wire fencing at the centre
Protestors run out carrying question papers, burn them on the road
— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL
Chaotic situation: Pro-Telangana students removing the barricades erected by the police at B.Ed college centre in Osmania University on Sunday where APPSC exam was being conducted.
HYDERABAD: Pro-Telangana students disrupted the Group I preliminary exam at a centre on Osmania University campus by barging inside on Sunday, while similar attempts were thwarted by police at other places in the State capital leading to arrest of many, including public representatives.
The bandh called by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti on Sunday opposing conduct of the exam evoked little response, but protestors attacked RTC buses and commercial complexes at different locations.
Tense moments
Tension gripped the exam centre — Institute of Advanced Study in Education (IASE) — on Tarnaka side of OU campus with some protestors snatching question papers and burning them. Police had to lob tear gas shells as a lathi-charge failed to disperse stone-pelting mobs.
Activists of Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were the first to try to storm the centre 30 minutes before the exam, notwithstanding the presence of massive police contingents and barbed wire fencing at the centre.
They were stopped, bundled into vehicles and sent away. But, streams of students from different directions repeatedly tried to force their way in only to be whisked away by the police.
The see-saw clash continued when a batch of protestors came from English and Foreign Languages University side taking police off guard.
They pulled the barbed wire fencing and jumped over the IASE compound wall. Smashing the window with a boulder, they entered the exam hall and snatched question papers forcing the panic stricken candidates to walk out. Some candidates taking the exam too joined them.
“Is this the way to conduct Group-I exam? How can I write it with stones being hurled at me,” a candidate vented his anger at the police. The protestors ran out carrying question papers and answer sheets, tore and burnt them on the road. One of them, Ehwar, fell unconscious as he was thrashed by police.
Meanwhile, groups of students swelled outside and started hurling stones at the police forcing the latter to use tear gas shell to disperse them.
The Congress MPs, G. Sukhender Reddy, Madhu Yashki, M. Jagannadham, G. Vivek and K. Rajgopal Reddy, TRS and BJP MLAs, E. Rajender and Laxminarayana were taken into preventive custody near EFLU.
The area continued to be tense for some time with woman activists of the Progressive Democratic Students Union staging sit-in before the EFLU condemning the lathi-charge while others observed protests at the Arts College.
EFLU issues clarification on student protests
HYDERABAD: Responding to a report published in these columns on Saturday, the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) clarified that the university Vice-Chancellor Mohd. Miyan met the agitating students of the varsity on August 12 at 11.30 a.m. and listened to their problems.
The V-C told the students that he had constituted an academicians' committee to resolve problems relating to infrastructure, but the students refused to talk about it arguing that they would only talk to the V-C who had left for Delhi by then, the university's proctor Harish Kumar Vijra said. It was also pointed out that agitating students locked up the university staff in the main building and refused to let them out despite authorities repeatedly pleading them.
The V-C told the students that he had constituted an academicians' committee to resolve problems relating to infrastructure, but the students refused to talk about it arguing that they would only talk to the V-C who had left for Delhi by then, the university's proctor Harish Kumar Vijra said. It was also pointed out that agitating students locked up the university staff in the main building and refused to let them out despite authorities repeatedly pleading them.
It's utter mayhem in headless Eflu
HYDERABAD: Trouble is brewing at English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu), the vice-chancellor post of which fell vacant after Abhai Maurya, the previous VC, was removed from office in June. According to university sources, the headless institution has now ended up as a battle field between students, faculty and administration and is currently under the indirect control of HRD minister for state Daggubati Purandeswari.
Eflu, which is temporarily under in-charge VC, Prof Md Miyan (vice-chancellor, Maulana Azad National Urdu University), has in a period of two weeks witnessed a massive protest by students demanding basic amenities, an uprising by faculty members against the students' protests and an administrative breakdown for want of a permanent VC, say university sources.
Sources said that the university is in the middle of utter mayhem which is only worsening by the day. "The appointment of another vice-chancellor will take more time as the ministry of human resource and development has not announced a deadline for the next appointment. In the absence of the VC, work on issues including student accommodation, water problems, development of the new campus and even floating of tenders has come to a standstill," a source said.
University sources said that two of the top administrative posts in the university are now occupied by the minister's (Purandeswari) candidates. "Several teaching posts too are held by those in her good books. With all of them vying for more power, the administrative matters of the university have gone for a toss," a source said. In the past few months, the construction activities on Eflu campus have stopped due to administrative slowdown, sources said. Even the removal of the former vice-chancellor, Abhai Maurya stating "overage'' as reason is being said in the university circles as a move by Purandeswari to make the university her forte.
The absence of a full-time VC is troubling the students too as most of the administrative staff have turned a deaf ear towards their grievances, they say. "At a time when we were not getting food in mess for days, the in-charge vice-chancellor directed us to a defunct committee without taking immediate action. We got no answers from the administration even after holding a protest in front of the administrative building," said an Eflu student.
Meanwhile, to add to the mayhem, the faculty members are currently thinking of taking action against students who stopped administrative work in the university during their protest. According to rumours floating thick and fast, a few of the student protesters might even get rusticated for leading agitation in the university.
When asked to respond to the burning issues on campus, a senior professor in the university and former pro-vice chancellor, Maya Pandit said that most of the problems on campus were not caused due to administrative slowdown or by the political influence of infighting. "There are problems on Eflu campus but that has got nothing to do with politics or with administrative slowdown. The in-charge vice-chancellor along with senior professors in the university are always around to sort out issues of the students. The problems will soon come to an end once all the parties hold a meeting," Pandit said.
Read more: It's utter mayhem in headless Eflu - Hyderabad - City - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Its-utter-mayhem-in-headless-Eflu-/articleshow/6442373.cms#ixzz0yorhYRER
Eflu, which is temporarily under in-charge VC, Prof Md Miyan (vice-chancellor, Maulana Azad National Urdu University), has in a period of two weeks witnessed a massive protest by students demanding basic amenities, an uprising by faculty members against the students' protests and an administrative breakdown for want of a permanent VC, say university sources.
Sources said that the university is in the middle of utter mayhem which is only worsening by the day. "The appointment of another vice-chancellor will take more time as the ministry of human resource and development has not announced a deadline for the next appointment. In the absence of the VC, work on issues including student accommodation, water problems, development of the new campus and even floating of tenders has come to a standstill," a source said.
University sources said that two of the top administrative posts in the university are now occupied by the minister's (Purandeswari) candidates. "Several teaching posts too are held by those in her good books. With all of them vying for more power, the administrative matters of the university have gone for a toss," a source said. In the past few months, the construction activities on Eflu campus have stopped due to administrative slowdown, sources said. Even the removal of the former vice-chancellor, Abhai Maurya stating "overage'' as reason is being said in the university circles as a move by Purandeswari to make the university her forte.
The absence of a full-time VC is troubling the students too as most of the administrative staff have turned a deaf ear towards their grievances, they say. "At a time when we were not getting food in mess for days, the in-charge vice-chancellor directed us to a defunct committee without taking immediate action. We got no answers from the administration even after holding a protest in front of the administrative building," said an Eflu student.
Meanwhile, to add to the mayhem, the faculty members are currently thinking of taking action against students who stopped administrative work in the university during their protest. According to rumours floating thick and fast, a few of the student protesters might even get rusticated for leading agitation in the university.
When asked to respond to the burning issues on campus, a senior professor in the university and former pro-vice chancellor, Maya Pandit said that most of the problems on campus were not caused due to administrative slowdown or by the political influence of infighting. "There are problems on Eflu campus but that has got nothing to do with politics or with administrative slowdown. The in-charge vice-chancellor along with senior professors in the university are always around to sort out issues of the students. The problems will soon come to an end once all the parties hold a meeting," Pandit said.
Read more: It's utter mayhem in headless Eflu - Hyderabad - City - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Its-utter-mayhem-in-headless-Eflu-/articleshow/6442373.cms#ixzz0yorhYRER
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