Hyderabad News

Hyderabad:  Amid rising concerns of the new strain of COVID-19 present in the state, the management of Begumpet’s St. Francis College for Women turned deaf to students’ appeal of canceling the ongoing offline exams to conduct them online. On Monday, almost 60 per cent of the students and their parents, along with the student activists gathered at the campus and demanded that the exams which are scheduled to be conducted offline should be taken online, in view of the ongoing pandemic. “There is nothing to do now. We need to go to college, sit for the exam and risk our lives,” laments a final-year student. Because she is in her final year, she does not want to risk her grades, by sitting for supplementary exams which are to be conducted later. “No amount of pressure worked, so there is no hope left,” she added. National Student Union of India, Telangana president, Venkat Balmoor, said, “As per the guidelines from the University Grants Commission the colleges cannot take exams wheneve...