Hyderabad: BTech students who took admission last year under the R15 batch staged a protest outside the JNTU campus, alleging that it had detained them without a clear plan. JNTU detained around 13,000 students for not getting the minimum 28 credits in the first year. Around 8,000 failed to clear the supplementary exams in August which were held after protests.
These detained students will have to get the requi-red credits by writing the supplementary exams next year and join their juniors who took admission in 2016 under R16, in the second year. B. Venkat, NSUI student leader, said, “R16 students had 16 subjects in two semesters in the first year, R15 students had 11. Students fear there might be subjects in the second year of R16 which have connection with subjects in the first two semesters which the R15 students did not have.”
JNTU registrar Prof N. Yadaiah said, “There is no confusion. The detained first-year R15 students can clear their supplementary exams, get the credits, join R16 in the second year. R15 students have more credits in first year than R16.”
