Though the need for a university was felt by both intelligentsia and the people, the initiative came from a civil servant, Sir Akbar Hydari.
OU officials are afraid that they will stage a protest during the Chief Minister's speech during the Science Congress and are resorting to action against non-boarders (Representational Image)
Hyderabad: Though the need for a university was felt by both the intelligentsia and the people, the initiative came from a civil servant, Sir Akbar Hydari, the then home secretary. Sir Akbar in a memorandum to the education minister in early 1917, emphasised the need to establish a university in Hyderabad with Urdu as the medium of instruction “as it is the language of the widest currency in India, official language of the state, and it is a language which is understood by a vast majority.”
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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