University of Hyderabad to commence online classes for students from August 20

The University of Hyderabad to conduct online classes for the students studying in various programmes from August 20. 

The University of Hyderabad has announced that it will resume online classes for its various programmes from August 20. The varsity has suspended all its classes in mid-March due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis in the country. With no clarity on resuming the physical classes at the university, the varsity has taken the decision to start online classes. The classes are scheduled to be held for around 2,000 ongoing Postgraduate students. The online classes will be resumed on the recommendation of a task force which assesses public health risks involved in holding physical, face-to-face classes on campus, states the university.

Hyderabad University has also granted a special allowance for students from deprived backgrounds to support the cost of online classes. Such students will be given Rs 1,000 per month as digital access grant. 

The varsity has received a record number of 62,853 applications online for academic session 2020-21. Of the total number of applicants, 35.26 per cent belong to the general category, OBC is 33.70 per cent; EWS is 4.77 per cent; SC is 17.37 per cent and ST is 8.90 per cent. Of them, 48.96 per cent of the applicants are male, 51 per cent are female while the remaining 0.04 per cent (11) belong to the transgender category.

The number of applications received by the varsity course-wise is topped by IMSc (5-year Integrated) Sciences (MA/PY/CH/SB/AG) which has got 6,189 applications, followed by MSc Chemistry (3,847 applications), MSc Physics (3,161), IMA (5-year Integrated) Social Sciences (EC/HS/PS/SL/AN) with 2,953 applications, MA English (2,536 applications) and MCA (2,946 applications).

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