HYDERABAD: A bandh is underway in two universities across Telangana on Thursday in protest against the arrest of a woman faculty member and in support of the demand for the regularisation of contract assistant professors.
The protest, led by the Joint Action Committee (JAC), intensified after its members staged a siege at the Telangana State Council of Higher Education office located in Masab Tank yesterday. The demonstrators sat in protest and raised slogans, prompting the police to detain them and shift them to nearby police stations.
The JAC is demanding that all contract assistant professors be made permanent. It condemned the state government’s handling of higher education issues. The arrest of the woman faculty member during the protest has sparked outrage, with protesters calling it unjustified.
The university bandh continues today in both universities, with the JAC holding the Revanth Reddy-led government responsible for the crisis. Students and faculty members participating in the agitation expressed concern over the government’s silence and urged immediate resolution of their demands.
