Hyderabad: Academics have taking a severe beating in Osmania University due some students illegally occupying hostels. Students have lost almost a month of their curriculum.
First and third semester classes of first and second year post-graduate students should have started by August 3.
A senior professor of the university, said, “A semester usually has about four months of learning period — August-November —after which, by November end semester exams are held. August has already come to an end and we now have just three months to finish the syllabus in which two internal exams will also have to be conducted.”
A senior professor from one of the departments in the Arts College, said, “Hostels have many illegal occupants. Arts College has four hostels with a capacity of about 1,000 students, but the occupants exceed 3,000. The situation is the same in other campus colleges too. The university manages to vacate a few hostels and then allots them to new students. This takes time and till then at least 50-60 per cent of students do not turn up to college because of which classes do not started.”
A university official said, “No one dares remove the illegal hostel occupants. As a result, every year academics of first and third semesters are affected.
