Telangana puts on hold jobs for temporary staff in Osmania University

Hyderabad: Following intense protests on the Osmania University campus, the Telangana government is under tremendous pressure to keep the Cabinet decision on regularising the services of contract staff on hold.

The OU campus, which had been calm since July last year following the former UPA government’s decision to carve out the Telangana state, has once again turned into a war zone over the contract employees’ issue.

Read: Tension grips Osmania University campus

Effigies of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his ministers are being burnt daily and heavy police force has been deployed to prevent students from taking out rallies. Students are intensifying their agitations and they are obstructing the ministers’ meetings ever since Mr Rao announced the Cabinet decision on July 16.