University of Hyderabad Allow Students to Vacate Hostel by June End

The University of Hyderabad has announced that it has extended the last date to vacate the hostels until June end. 

This announcement came after several students protested against the University of Hyderabad asking students to vacate the hostel within a week.

Previously, students who are staying in hostels were asked to return to their homes within a week as inter-state travel has been permitted now.

However, a group of students under the Students Union staged a flash protest at Administrative Block against the circular and demanded its unconditional rollback, terming it as autocratic and inhumane circular.

In the wake of that, the University held a meeting with students' union representatives, and revised the earlier notification, a senior UoH official said.

Earlier the administration has issued an advisory to students as about 300 of them were still staying on the campus, to consider leaving and going back to their homes as inter-state travel has been permitted, the official added.

Students felt that the time granted to them to vacate the hostel was very short and hence, the UoH had decided to reconsider and extend the period until June end.

"There will be no forcible eviction," the official told a media house.

The Students Union had mentioned that many students on the campus are from areas that are now either a Red Zone or a Containment Zone (amidst the COVID-19), and belong to economically and socially marginalized sections and do not have adequate facilities for home-quarantine.

Furthermore, they said many students who had the facilities to vacate hostels and return to their respective homes have already done so or plan to do it very soon.