The Principals of the various junior colleges and composite degree colleges offering Intermediate courses in Telangana were informed today that such colleges would function on all Second Saturdays till March 2020 in lieu of the holidays declared due to the disruption in bus services because of the TSTRC strike.
Syed Omer Jaleel, Secretary, Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education, mandated the above through a press note today.
The TSRTC employees' strike started on October 6 and continues to go on. The Telangana government had in the initial days effectively commandeered the buses of various schools and colleges as substitutes for the RTC buses that had gone off the roads, and so the Dasara vacation for educational institutes was extended by a week in October.