Classes as usual for some OU students

HYDERABAD: Even as one part of the Osmania University was boiling on Monday, on another side of the campus were students completely detached from the T agitation. If the arts and science students were busy engaging the police, their counterparts in business management, engineering and public enterprises departments went ahead with their studies.The Institute of Public Enterprises appeared like it was on another campus altogether. Students and faculty members attended classes as usual. “In the institution, 90 percent of the students are from North India and neighbouring states of AP. This is why all the students wanted the institution to be opened,” said a professor of the institute who wished not to be named. The institute was closed only for a day ever since the general strike began.MBA students too got their lecturers to conduct private classes for them. “Though the business school professors are extending their support to the Telangana agitation by boycotting classes, students requested professors to conduct classes, if not in classrooms, on the lawns of the campus,”  a final year MBA student Shruti Amaravadhi said.She further said, “We want classes because there is a lot of syllabus to be covered. If we do not complete the course  in time, it is going to be a problem at the end of the course. We have to compete with  national level MBA students at recruitment time and there are weekly and monthly project works  to be submitted. Besides, if we do not score marks and get good grades, no one will hire us.” Similar were the views of engineering students. They conducted a quiz and interaction programmes among themselves on the campus. However, the OU students’ Telangana students association joint action committee members alleged that the engineering students had not been taking part in the agitation as they were not from Telangana.