Classes to resume at medical college

HYDERABAD: The standoff over classes not being held for nearly two months at Maheswara Medical College and Hospital in Patancheru is heading towards some solution with faculty members giving a written undertaking to resume classes immediately.


“A written assurance signed by 32 faculty members of the college has been received by us and classes will resume immediately,” said B Karunakar Reddy, vice-chancellor, Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).

The faculty at Maheshwara college discontinued classes since January after the management had failed to pay their salaries for six months, leaving hundreds of students and parents in disarray.

The VC said clearing salary dues and other payments were internal issues of the college and that the university had no business with it. His assertion comes a day after 150 parents staged a protest in front of the university, under which all the medical colleges in Telangana are affiliated to. The parents were sent away with a promise that classes would begin soon.

The parents, however, are still not convinced. “We have been fooled before. So, unless classes begin on Saturday as promised, it will be hard for us to trust any one on this issue,” explained Bhadri B whose daughter is pursuing her medicine second year in the college. “The management had failed to stick to its promise time and again and that’s why we asked the faculty for a written undertaking,” another parent said.

Students have been staging protests and requesting the college management to clear the salary dues so that their classes could resume. They met health minister, varsity officials and senior officials in the health department in this regard.