HYDERABAD: Extra skeletons appear to be tumbling out of Osmania College’s closet after a up to date meals poisoning incident that rocked the campus, following which scholars protested towards the worst products and services presented within the hostels by means of varsity control.  

Stress prevailed at Osmania College after the meals poisoning incident at the campus from Thursday night time. Scholars of Centenary Women Hostel at the varsity’s primary campus staged a protest on Thursday night time after many hostel inmates allegedly fell sick after eating meals from the hostel mess. Ambulances have been summoned to the hostel about 4 to 5 occasions at the day. This precipitated the protest by means of indignant scholars, who have been already bored stiff with a number of different problems.

 

About 100 scholars, each from the Centenary Hostel in addition to the ones from different hostels, protested in the street round 8.30 pm. The school’s vice-chancellor Prof Ravinder and the warden of the hostel then met the scholars, who defined to them the various problems they confronted within the hostel, and confident to unravel them, and then the scholars dispersed round middle of the night.

The inmates have an extended record of proceedings referring to amenities within the hostel. They allege that washrooms aren’t wiped clean for lengthy periods and dustbins aren’t cleared, resulting in insufferable stench. Even one-and-a-half months after offline categories started and maximum scholars returned to hostels, they nonetheless shouldn’t have any community or WiFi facility within the hostel. To make any name, they’ve to step out of the hostel. When this used to be dropped at the Vice Chancellor’s realize, he promised to carry a gathering quickly to deal with it.

 

Despite the fact that the control began bus amenities for college kids to achieve faculties, taking into account the new climate, scholars of this hostel had been equipped simplest two buses, which will accommodate simplest 150 scholars, and the timings are erratic.

“Maximum people are nonetheless strolling to varsities,” says a pupil.

“The scholars don’t also have enough room to sleep, as 4 scholars are stuffed right into a room that simplest has 3 cots and they’ve requested us to regulate with 3 cots, however how is it conceivable?” asks the coed. Unusually, sensor based totally lighting — a unnecessary luxurious — had been put in within the rooms and are if truth be told troubling the scholars, as they all of sudden transfer on or off. Even water isn’t coming from about 40 faucets within the hostel, they allege.

 

Previous, on March 27 and 28, scholars of a special block of women’ hostel protested at the streets over a number of elementary problems, after scholars allegedly discovered a computer virus in meals served within the mess. 

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