Overview
- RGUKT-Basar announced on Sunday that it will begin online classes from October 26 to complete the syllabus remotely before students return to campus.
- The university published a revised calendar that delays mass reporting — PUC students to return on November 10 and engineering cohorts on November 18 — with physical midterm exams scheduled for November 19–21.
- Authorities blamed a drop in Godavari River flows linked to El Niño and constrained irrigation supplies for the drinking‑water shortfall that prompted the changes.
- Reports say the campus needs about 25 lakh litres of water a day but has been receiving roughly 10 lakh litres, a gap that hit the residential community of about 9,000 students and 1,000 staff and led to pre‑recorded Google Classroom lectures and online doubt sessions.
- The disruption raises immediate logistics challenges for practical exams and hostel services and could increase pressure on regional water management as other Telangana universities move to conserve supplies.