Hyderabad: For the first time, UoH is asking new students to sign an affidavit at the time of admission agreeing to its rules.
Student leaders say the affidavit is unacceptable and is against the fundamental rights since it denies them the right to protest on campus. It also violates UGC's Students Minimum Entitlement guidelines, 2013.
K.S. Roy Chowdary, vice-president of the Students Federation of India, said, “The university wants to control students with these new rules and regulations. If students sign such affidavits, legal cases can be booked ag-ainst them, which will affect the student community."
K.P. Manojan, who is studying human rights at UoH, said that the university wants to “mould the newcomers so that they will not be able to participate in protests.”'
T. Sriranga Rao who practices in the High Court, said that if students sign the affidavit they have to follow it at any cost. “These kinds of rules are against the Consti-tution as they violate freedom of expression and speech. It is not good of the University to do this, but students should not create a nuisance; protests should always be within limits.”
