Speaking to reporters here, the Osmania University Vice-Chancellor, Suleiman Siddiqui, said a committee was constituted to study the need and recommend the requirements for opening of extension counters.
He said the decision was taken on the request of the State Government and the Consul-General, Saudi Arabia. The committee would look into the viability factors for offering undergraduate courses and modular courses through distance mode for Indians in Jeddah city first.
The committee's report would be presented to the Government before. "We will decide on extending the facility to other cities like Riyadh and Dammam, based on the response," he said. The Vice-Chancellor said that the entrance test for admission into various postgraduate courses being offered by the university would commence from June 6. The university received 1,24,612 applications this year, which was a record.
