OU delays engineering exam

The Osmania University College of Engineering has postponed the first semester examinations of the final year engineering students due to the Telangana protests on the campus. On Wednesday, the OU Vice-Chancellor, had al-ready announced that the ongoing semester examinations were postponed indefinitely except for engineering, pharmacy and hotel management students.

There were, however, severe protests by students from other streams demanding that the engineering college postpone the exams for final year students too. But, the OU asserted that the exams for engineering, hotel management and pharmacy courses in affiliated colleges will be conducted as per scheduled.
“The OU College of Engineering is an autonomous institution and so we decided to postpone the semester exams of our final year students. There are only three exams left and we will conduct them once peace is resumed on the campus. Exams have been postponed for only 300 final year engineering students studying on the campus. And, we will start the next semester classes for final year students from Monday,” said Dr Venugopal Reddy, principal, OU College of Engineering.
The next semester classes for other students of the varsity will begin from Friday.
Meanwhile, the OU, which turned into a battlefield on Wednesday — with students and police clashing — was relatively peaceful on Thursday. On Wednesday however, students who were confined to the campus demonstrated protest rallies all through the day and burnt effigies of the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, for not taking action against the police department’s lathicharge on students.
The entrances of the university at Nallakunta and Tarnaka were closed and police stayed away from the boundary line marked by the students.