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Osmania University PhD students urge to continue hostel facilities

Hyderabad: PhD students of Osmania University urged the university authorities to restore electricity, water and the dirt of the university so that they can continue their research work.

In a representation to the OU in-charge Vice-Chancellor Arvind Kumar, a group of research scholars on Tuesday said that the Covid-induced lockdown and its guidelines from the Centre and the State have led to the closing of the hostels and research labs in OU from March-2020 till date, impacting the academic and research activities

“Research scholars have lost about 9 months of their research activities. In addition, the lockdown had affected academic and research activities, in particular, PhD students doing laboratory work, fieldwork and more,” the representation said. Scholars said that this is causing both their personal and commercial problems, such as breakdown of equipment, inefficiency of chemicals, reduced production of publications, reduced disbursement of fellowships, increased employment opportunities, etc.

Meanwhile an OU circular stated that it was decided to shut down the power supply and water facilities from April 27 and the boarders were asked to vacate the hostels. Research scholars said that they had already lost progress in their PhD working during 2020 and that the closure of hostels would hurt them further in 2021, severely affecting their research work.

Against this backdrop the research scholars have asked the in-charge VC to continue the hostels and assured that they would strictly adhere to the Covid-19 guidelines

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