Though Telangana supporters have assured that they would not target APSRTC buses taking SSC students to examination centres,parents are worried that those travelling in private vehicles could be attacked.The secondary education department has sent a letter to all district collectors in the Telangana region asking them to provide police protection to parents carrying their children in vehicles to exam centres.Meanwhile,most state board schools in the city have decided to function,while some CBSE and ICSE schools declared a holiday.
The secondary board of examinations has appealed to Telangana agitators not to prevent SSC students from reaching their examination centres.
Meanwhile,three universities in the Telangana region,Osmania University,Palamuru University,Mahbubnagar and Mahatma Gandhi University,Nalgonda have postponed all the examinations which were scheduled to be held on Tuesday on account of the bandh.Osmania Universitys undergraduate degree examinations had started on Monday.In a press release,OU authorities said that examinations of all the three universities would be held as per schedule on March 28.
However,Telangana students unions said that they had not exempted the SSC examinations from bandh.The suicides in Telangana are politically murders and we will resist the state governments move to suppress the agitation.The government should have postponed the examinations and since it has refused to do so,we will disrupt it, said Konagala Mahesh from Telangana Vidyarthi Ikya Vedika.
The state government should have postponed the examinations by a day.By deciding to conduct the examination on bandh day the government is playing with the future of lakhs of students.We request the agitators not to disrupt the examinations, said M Sambashiv Rao,a parent here.
They do not have to travel for long and since tight police protection will be provided on Tuesday most students will not face problems, said spokesperson of Board of Government Examinations.On Tuesday first language paper I (group A),paper II (composite course) and OSSC main Language paper-I examinations are being held.
Some student unions backed by TRS maintained that they would not disrupt the examinations.
In the wake of two suicides in Warangal in the past three days for the T cause,Osmania Students Joint Action Committee announced that they would conduct district tours in the coming month to counsel students against taking their lives.