University of Hyderabad allow students to vacate hostel by June-end

The University of Hyderabad has said that the students who are in the campus hostels can vacate the same by June end and go to their home as inter-state travel is now permitted.

The University of Hyderabad has announced that it has extended the last date to vacate the hostels until June end. The announcement comes after several students protested against University asking students to vacate hostels within a week.

Earlier, the University of Hyderabad (UoH) had asked students who are staying in hostels to return to their homes as inter-state travel has now been permitted. However, a group of students under the UoH Students Union staged a flash protest at Administrative Block against the circular and demanded its unconditional rollback, terming it as autocratic and inhumane circular.

After which the University held a meeting with students' union representatives and the earlier notification was revised, a senior UoH official said.

The administration had earlier issued an advisory to students as about 300 of them were still staying on the campus, to consider leaving and going back to their homes as inter-state travel has been permitted, the official added.

Students felt that the time given to them to vacate the hostel was very short and hence, the UoH had decided to reconsider and extend the period until June end.

"There will be no forcible eviction," the official told a media house.

The Students Union had said many of them on the campus are from areas which are now either a Red Zone or a Containment Zone (amidst the COVID-19), and they belong to economically and socially marginalised sections and do not have sufficient facility for home-quarantine.

They further said many students who had the facilities to leave the campus to their homes have already done so or plan to do it very soon.