Telangana universities to get uniform detention policy

Presently, each university and autonomous engineering colleges have their own detention criteria, with credit requirements for promotion ranging from 25 per cent to 50 per cent out of the total credits

Hyderabad: In a move aimed at creating fairness and consistency, all the engineering colleges are set to have a uniform detention policy. The public universities, including the Osmania University, JNTU- Hyderabad, and Kakatiya University, among other autonomous colleges will have a common set of rules governing the detention system, starting next academic year.

Currently, each public university and autonomous engineering colleges have their own detention criteria, with credit requirements for promotion ranging from 25 per cent to 50 per cent out of the total credits.

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For instance, JNTU-Hyderabad students are mandated to secure 25 per cent i.e., 10 credits out of 40 credits for promotion from the first year engineering programme to second-year. However, at OU, students must score at least 50 per cent of the total credits to get promoted. On the other hand, the autonomous engineering colleges have set their own norms for detention.

This inconsistency in the detention policy often created frustration among students as they felt disadvantaged based on the university they got admitted to.

This issue was recently highlighted by AIMIM floor leader in assembly Akaruddin Owaisi, criticising the State government over the different detention policy being followed by the universities. Following this, the government relaxed the detention system for the OU students for this academic year.

In view of this, the Telangana Council of Higher Education that constituted an expert committee to revise the syllabus will soon come up with a template for the universities fixing norms for detention policy.

According to the sources, the universities may be asked to follow the JNTU-Hyderabad norms for the detention system. This means, all varsities will detain students in the same class if they fail to secure at least 25 per cent of the total credits.