Kaloji health university promotes BPT students

Kaloji health university promotes BPT students

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad:06.08.2021

Kaloji Narayana University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) has decided to promote physiotherapy students without conducting the final examination.

Thousands of students, pursuing Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT), had approached the university seeking unconditional promotion, citing delay in the academic session by almost nine months.

The KNRUHS had scheduled the final exams in the October, 2020 which were later postponed to April, 2021. Subsequently, due to Covid-19 second wave, the exams were rescheduled to August, 2021, resulting in a year long delay in the academics.

“Considering the present Covid-19 pandemic prevailing in the country and Telangana, students are stuck in the same academic year since 2019. Promoting the physiotherapy students to next year without exams will help prevent the lag in their academics,” read a representation submitted by All India Medical Students Association to the Telangana governor on July 29.

The decision was taken by the university recently during its executive council meeting following multiple representations by the students. “Physiotherapy students may be promoted to next year but they have to compulsorily appear for final examination of that year before final examination of the next year (promoted year),” the university said in a notification issued recently.

The executive council observed that physiotherapy was an important branch of health sciences dealing with patients. “Physiotherapy graduates will be treating the patients, so it is not proper to expose society to physiotherapists with inadequate knowledge,” the council observed.

Students had sought a one-time promotion through Twitter storms, protests and representations to governor. A few students also moved the high court seeking relief