Hyderabad, June 22 -- As many as 70,000 distance students of Maulana Azad Urdu University (MANUU) have been waiting for over a year now for the university to hold the distance-mode exams. The Student Islamic Organization (SIO) MANUU demanded the exams be conducted immediately.

SIO MANUU accused the University of "institutional discrimination against students of a particular stream during the pandemic crisis thus further marginalizing them."

According to Abdul Qavi Adil, president of SIO MANUU, final year students of both UG and PG pursuing education via distance mode are unable to enroll in higher education as their exams have been time and again cancelled. The newly released exam schedule has completely ignored this issue too, he said....