Re-evaluation results sought

Students of the CBIT, Vasavi, Deccan, MVSR and the OU engineering colleges protested at the Osmania University campus on Wednesday demanding that the university announce the re-evaluation results for engineering students immediately, and that it scrap the detention system.
Students claim that OU does not allow students to sit the next academic year if they don’t pass in 50 per cent of the subjects. OU also makes it mandatory for students to submit their re-evaluation results within four weeks of the start of the next academic year, failing which they have to wait for the next academic year to get promoted. The students allege that the university delays the results of the re-evaluation and so they are forced to waste one year.


Last year, an engineering student committed suicide in the Ladies Hostel of OU as she was not promoted to the next year owing to the delay in re-evaluation. This forced the university to scrap the detention system. But this year, it’s back.
“We want OU to remove this system as there is no mention of it in the OU rule book given to us at the time of admission. Even if we pass in the re-evaluation, we are not promoted as we don’t have attendance,” said T. Sreedhar, a second year engineering student who is awaiting his re-evaluation result.
“We are aware that the students are losing one academic year. But the examination department has some internal problems which is why they are delaying it,” said Prof B. Laxmaiah, dean student affairs, OU.