University of Hyderabad allows return of 2000 students to the campus

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has notified to carry out the next phase of reopening of its campus for enabling in-person academic activities by allowing an additional 2,000 students to return the campus. The return will be absolutely voluntary and the university will resume teaching-learning activities online for those who wish to remain home.

UoH Vice-Chancellor had give green signal to the recommendations of the task force headed by Prof Vinod Pavarala to allow the return of all terminal semester post-graduate students who will complete their programmes and graduate in June. Apart from that , all PhD students, except those who joined in 2020-21, can return to resume their research work at the campus.

However, the rule is that all students returning to the campus must provide a Covid-negative RT-PCR test report, sign an undertaking, and be quarantined for atleast three days on campus. Students returning from the six States where there is high rise in cases — Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat — must spend seven days in isolation.

The university of Hyderabad union recently Students’ union president Abhishek Nandan said the varsity authorities were levying Rs 500 as quarantine charges per day and are not willing to pay for the unjust charges because of poor facilities for food and accommodation. On Thursday, the union insisted Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao to immediately drop the charges and provide proper quarantine facilities with subsistence, either in hostels or at guest houses free of charge.