Osmania University vice-chancellor D. Ravinder said that admissions for all those who registered for Ph.D before 2017 stand cancelled if they have not submitted their thesis so far, and the existing Ph.D students have to complete their work by June 2023.
After exhausting the present registered candidates, the varsity will conduct a fresh entrance exam in 2023 to fill up the vacancies in each department, the vice-chancellor said at a press conference on Saturday.
Prof. Ravinder denied that students’ voices were being suppressed saying that the university welcomed intellectual debates and discussions rather than those with a political motive. Permission for Rahul Gandhi’s proposed meeting with students was declined on various grounds, including the political angle, since the university has decided to keep politics away from the campus.
