Students protested about the PhD notification in 2017 and also about interview criteria and now OU is releasing PhD notification for 2022 as protest pays off.
Highlights
- Osmania University, Hyderabad released the notification for PhD in 2022 on August 1st.
- Students protested about the notification for months to be released and it finally happened.
- The student also protested that the admission criteria should be changed for admission to PhD.
- OU has changed the admission criteria as well.
Students in the past few weeks have been protesting about the PhD notification and the change in admission criteria. the protest pays off on August 1st.
The student even stormed the Vice Chancellor’s office last week demanding to release the PhD notification and also to change the admission process to make everyone eligible for the admission exams.
The notification release was a surprise because OU has not released any notification for the last 5 years. This notification was not a surprise for the student because they have been protesting about this since late last month.
OU also change the admission process and the interview for the candidate will be held at the offices of respective Deans.
In 2017, OU released the PhD notification which was surprising because it is one of Telangana’s premier universities.
During the protest, students made a Joint Admission Committee (JAC) in the university with the PhD aspirants leading the charge.
The leader of the JAC Vislavath Ashok Naik said that for the last four years University has been postponing the notifications. For the First 2 years, they were delayed and for the next 2 years, Covid-19 made it more delayed. But now they have to release the notification for the PhD aspirants.
It was notified by the JAC that the protest will continue until the notification is released and the criteria of admission will change.
On August 1st, OU finally released the PhD notifications and the necessary changes to the admission criteria.
Students are happy that their appeal was heard but they still have doubts because only OU and Kakatiya University offer PhD in Telangana, which is very few for a state with this bug. This limits the options student has to study in their state.
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