Telangana agitation keeps students on stake !

What a beautiful gift from our government to students! “Our entire academic year is wasted thanks to some dumb issues. Plz conduct our exams on schedule”. This is what every student is pleading to the so called politicians of our state. But here the question is does it really fell on the ears of bureaucrats and how many of them are really serious on the issue?

Protests for and against a new Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh have forced universities and colleges to shut, jeopardising the future of lakhs of students. And there is a real danger of students losing an academic year. Many students in city are worried, They say the January 5 meeting in Delhi on Telangana has not taken away any of the uncertainty.

"Not getting to know when I will write my exams, what is the state of it. And if my exams get postponed even further and further, I may even lose an year and that will become a real problem for me later on," says Ankita, student of Aurora P.G. College.

“This is really very painful. We have been waiting for our Masters certificates. All the two years went quite well, but i dont know why we have become victims now. As we are in the final year, we have to think of our future. Due to this agitation, we are unable to do so”, she adds.

For over a month now, pro-Telangana protests on the Osmania University campus have forced colleges in the region to be closed. Exams have had to be postponed twice. Protestors may be aiming to correct the wrongs of the past, but that still can't justify putting the future of so many youngsters at stake.

The worst affected are the 10th and 12th class students. If the 12th class students loose one year, their dreams of becoming an engineer or doctor may collapse. With half yearly exams getting postpone due to the sankranthi week in many colleges, students staying in hostels will have to miss the festival as they can not go home and spend the festival there. The politicians and student leaders should realise that in these days of competions at all india level, the students of AP will go behind by one year because of this agitation. It is a pity that even the central government is only consulting political parties about Telanagan, leaving out intellectuals and educated persons out of it. Is a consensus among a few politicains is sufficient and justified to bifurcate a state?


Even as student union leaders and political parties are agitating for a separate Telangana state, forcing the city’s universities to stay shut for over a month, thousands of students studying in these universities and their affiliated colleges stand a risk of losing an academic year. JNTU and OU officials admit that if the current situation continues for more days, nothing can be done to salvage the year. If the exams are not held soon, city professors fear the students will have to forego a whole year as they will be behind schedule.

What’s worse is the fact that agitating students are ready to “forego” this academic year for separate statehood and are calling it the “Telangana sadhana year.”Caught in this crossfire are students of 300 engineering colleges and 98 MBA institutions affiliated to JNTU. The university which should have commenced its second semester by now, hasn’t yet completed its first semester exams”

Students who had plans to go abroad or appear for competitive examinations are also in panic mode. G.Sailaja, an engineering student of OU College of Technology, says, “From this year onwards, they have permitted third year students to apply for GATE. The exam will have questions from the final year syllabus too. We haven’t even started our second semester classes yet. The political issue that is being debated on is important, but not at the cost of our careers.”

Swati, student of VNR College of Engineering says, “To study abroad, we need recommendation letters and graduation certificates. We’ll lose six months if we can’t apply for the current intake.”

Some students are of view that this is collateral damage! The people of Telangana are not feeling the damage because they think were denied their share, they have nothing to lose. This is expected.. they don't care, there will be falls and spills before stability.

The Osmania university students Joint action committee on Wednesday clued-up the central government to come on a decision on the T-issue before 28th January or ready to face worst consequences in Hyderabad.

Anubha k. Singh

Millennium's longest annular solar eclipse on January 15!

The first solar eclipse of the year will be visible partially in the early hours of January 15 till 6.47 a.m. across different parts of the country. This is the best until the year 2019 and the next solar eclipse visible on June 21, 2020.


People living in the southern tip of the country at Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu will get to watch the 'Ring of Fire' when the moon will cover the sun's disc during the millennium's longest annular solar eclipse.


However, sky gazers in Hyderabad will also have something to cheer about as they will get to see more than half of the eclipse. Annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the moon's shadow is smaller than that of the visible disc of the sun. The covered sun, therefore, appears as a 'Ring of Fire', with its rays appearing spread out from the outline of the moon.


Last time India saw this 'Ring of Fire' was Nov 22, 1965, and it will not be witnessed again before June 21, 2020. In India, the eclipse will start around 11 a.m. and end around 3:15 p.m. The eclipse will first be seen in south of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and then move obliquely to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi. It will then move to Kerala and end in Mizoram in the northeast.


As part of the annular solar eclipse campaign, the Planetary society of India will provide imported German solar filters at a cost of Rs. 30 to students besides making available a special compact disc containing videos and presentations to schools.
They will also conduct observations sessions for the general public on the day of the annular eclipse.

Interested schools can contact 9295352988 or visit www.ournewplanets.com for more information.



The eclipse will be the longest of the millennium - that is between 2001 and 3000. People in most parts of India will witness the partial phases of the eclipse. The maximum duration of the solar eclipse or sun eclipse would be 11 minutes and 8 seconds over the Indian Ocean, thus making it the longest annular eclipse of the millennium.


The first annular solar eclipse of the year on January 15, 2010 will be seen in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and first and then travel to Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi, where people will enjoy the best view. It will then move to Kerala and end at northeastern state of Mizoram around 3:15 PM” said, Raghunandan Kumar, general secretary of Planetary Society, India.


Experts say, people should not watch the eclipse with naked eyes, and advised them to take precautionary measures while watching the celestial activity.

Anubha K.Singh

Rise in demand of division of states how benefeciary is it for common man?

Creation of small states on the basis of administration may be considered necessary for the sake of faster growth, smooth administration and quickest execution of policy framed by the government and also the best monitoring of the plan and policy executed at the ground level. But what is the guarantee that small states will function properly and there will be all round development?


There are still many states like Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizorem, Jharkhand, Chattishgarh etc., where no sign of development or growth is visible because entire energy is lost in change of government. State government is too small to be stable.There are many tiny political parties and groups which have got no actual party manifesto or plan to do work. There is more dirty politics and tug of war for power among politicians of various colour and group. Democracy is meant for people but in real terms government in these smaller states is for political party leaders, by the leaders and of the leaders.


So far as the smooth functioning and monitoring of policies and real development is concerned, we have for this purpose already in place a reliable set up called as District administration. But if head of the states fail to do their duty, fail to monitor the progress of every district and indulge in cheap party politics to serve their vested interest, there is no question of development taking place.


Not to forget UP government headed by Mayawati is now advocating for breaking of UP states just to deviate the minds of common men from her failures and to trap the Congress Party in a different ensnare. She has forgotten that Congress party has already submitted proposal in state assembly for carving out two smaller states out of UP.In actual sense there is no neeed for small state if each district works honestly for the development and execute the policy framed by state and central government on their respective subjects enlisted in the constitution. Unfortunately district administration is not allowed to function properly, seriously and honestly by dirty politicians of our country. Politicians in general have more faith in cheap agenda to earn cheap popularity. They have an inclination towards making money and accumulating wealth for their future generation and have a common tendency to become richest person in shortest period. This is why it can be rightly said that it is immaterial whether states are small or large. As long as people are corrupt one cannot dream of developmemt.



We have in the recent past created small state like Jharkhand carved out of Bihar and seen and experienced the pathetic position of Jharkhand in the hands of Koda and all his predecessors. In actual sense solution of all these problems lies in quality of people and not size of the state or district. After all India is one and should remain as one and every one is duty bound to maintain federal structure of the country.



If however there is consensus on formation of small states it should be well discussed, planned and structured jointly by all dominant political groups. There should be one national policy defining the area and population fit for efficient state.

Anubha K. Singh