Etudiants : affrontements à Hyderabad – août 2010

Telangana students attack teachers in Osmania University

Times of india

Aug 28, 2010,

HYDERABAD: In a new twist to the movement for a separate Telangana state, students from the region Saturday manhandled teachers from Andhra and Rayalaseema on the Osmania University campus here.

Protesting the spot evaluation of their B.Ed examination papers by teachers from other regions, the pro-Telangana students chased them away. A couple of teachers were also beaten up by the protesters.

The incident sparked tension on the campus, which has been witnessing violent protests and student suicides for a separate Telangana state since November last year.

Trouble broke out Saturday when leaders of Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee (JAC) took exception to evaluation of their papers by academicians from other regions and asked them to leave the campus. Alleging injustice to students from Telangana, they demanded that only teachers from Telangana should evaluate their papers.

When some teachers ignored their warning and continued their work, the students forcibly stopped them and drove them out. Few students were seen chasing and thrashing two lecturers while others including women left the campus in panic. A couple of policemen tried to save the teachers.

In the past, the Telangana students had also staged protests against the evaluation of intermediate (11th and 12th standard) papers by lecturers from outside Telangana.

However, this was the first time that academicians from other regions of the state have come under attack.
The incident could heighten tension between Telangana and Andhra regions. Teachers from the universities in Andhra and Rayalaseema condemned the attack on their colleagues in Osmania University.

JAC leaders denied that they beat up teachers but demanded that all evaluators from Andhra should leave the campus by Aug 30.

University officials said action would be taken against those involved in the incidents.

Teachers flee campus after Hyderabad student riots

Gulfnews.com

August 29, 2010

The teachers, including women, had come to the Osmania campus to evaluate Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) examinations answer sheets, but they were prevented from carrying out the work and forced out of the hall.

Hyderabad: The regional divide in Andhra Pradesh flared again on Saturday with the pro-Telangana students of Osmania University in Hyderabad assaulting teachers from the Andhra and Rayala Seema regions, forcing them to flee the campus.

The teachers, including women, had come to the Osmania campus to evaluate Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) examinations answer sheets, but they were prevented from carrying out the work and forced out of the hall. Some of them were stopped from entering the venue and a couple of them were chased and assaulted by students.

The incident has sparked a strong reaction in the Rayala Seema and Andhra regions, and protests against the teacher assaults by students from Andhra University in Visakhapatanam. Rallying students also burnt the effigies of Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhara Rao and Telangana political JAC convenor Prof Kodanda Ram, demanding stringent action against the students who carried out the assaults.

State governor, ESL Narasimhan, sought a report on the assaults from the OU Vice Chancellor as tension prevailed on several university campuses across the state. The Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee demanded that all the teachers from other regions should be sent back and taken off evaluation duties, They then shouted slogans against non-local teachers and demanded that their answer sheets be evaluated only by Telangana teachers.

Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee leader Ramesh alleged that the teachers from Andhra and Rayala Seema were not being fair in the evaluation of their papers.

« Last year 60 per cent of our students were deliberately failed in B.Ed examination to deprive them of job opportunities so the same could go to the candidates of Andhra and Rayala Seema, » Ramesh said.

Denying that the students had attacked the teachers yesterday, Ramesh said that students only protested after the teachers made provocative remarks about the Telangana students.