Telangana & Andhra Pradesh to airlift 30 students stuck in Manipur

HYDERABAD: A batch of Telugu students who had to stay back at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Manipur, for exams, will be brought back to the city on May 13.
“We will be completing our exams on May 12. The Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments have booked tickets for May 13 for Hyderabad,” said one of the Telugu students.
The students said that they will be flying out from Imphal via Kolkata to Hyderabad and will reach the city in the wee hours of May 14.
“We were very scared that we will be left here as all other students from Telangana and AP had left on May 8 and we had to stay back for exams. Thankfully, the governments have made arrangements to take us back to Hyderabad,” said another Telugu student.
Of the 30 Telugu students of second and third year engineering, some had pre-booked tickets to leave for summer vacation after exams. But a few had not booked tickets as they had got internship opportunities in Manipur. After the riots broke out, they requested the government to book tickets as airfares had gone out of reach for many. Students confirmed to TOI that 11 of them (8 from AP and three from Telangana) got their tickets with the help of the two governments. The remaining will also be leaving the campus along with these stude-nts for Hyderabad on May 13.
Earlier, the students had alleged they were forced to stay back as the college had told them they will have to appear for backlogs if they left without writing their semester exams.
The faculty, however, said that all students stayed back voluntarily, adding that postponing exams would have affected their internship and placements.