Polytechnic students and staff across Telangana have opposed the proposed merger of polytechnic education with Young India Skill University. Protesters fear the move could affect ECET and BTech opportunities, undermine SBTET’s autonomy and reduce the importance of diploma education.
Students and parents staged a protest at Ratnapuri Institute of Technology in Sangareddy district after a faculty member allegedly beat around 15 first-year Polytechnic students over incomplete homework. Student organisations joined the protest and demanded the immediate arrest of the lecturer
According to BRSV Coordinator, Mir Qurram Ali, the cessation of semester-wise supplementary exams, a policy change, had severely impacted students who are struggling to clear their backlog courses.
