Overview
- About 2,000 private professional colleges remain shut, with FATHI saying the strike will end only after an immediate ₹5,000 crore release from roughly ₹10,000 crore in arrears and proposing the balance be paid in ₹500 crore monthly tranches.
- Hyderabad police denied permission for the November 8 teachers’ gathering at LB Stadium and other venues, prompting FATHI to shift the event to Aurora Engineering College and seek relief from the Telangana High Court.
- The planned students’ ‘Maha Rally’ to the Secretariat has been postponed from November 11 to November 15, with organizers projecting participation in the lakhs.
- FATHI announced a boycott of JNTUH B.Pharmacy regular and supplementary examinations and urged the university to postpone the tests.
- The state formed a ‘Trust Bank’ committee including officials and FATHI reps to study funding, while FATHI seeks a one-month timeline and finance experts as political criticism and an IAS officers’ rebuke over remarks on A. Sridevasena escalate tensions.