Over 1,200 contract assistant professors from Telangana universities have demanded job security, equal pay for equal work, and UGC pay scales in line with Supreme Court judgments. At a round-table meeting, faculty leaders called for regularisation of contract staff across 12 universities.
After nearly four decades, students’ union elections are likely to return to Telangana’s State universities from the next academic year. The Telangana Education Commission has proposed the move in its draft education policy, citing the need to streamline student representation and reduce campus unrest caused by multiple organisations. Elections were banned in 1988 following violent incidents.
The proposed commission will be headed by a former Supreme Court or High Court judge and comprise senior academicians, professors, chartered accountants, and management members
In a letter to the Commissioner chairman Akunuri Murali, Vinod Kumar stated that the previous BRS government pursued the assurances by the Centre to establish a Sainik School in Telangana
