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Students alleged the management of indulging in corrupt practices, filling of management posts without issuing proper notifications and infringing upon their freedom of speech and movement inside the campus.“Been getting number of tweets from the students at RGUKT. Can I request that a delegation of students come & meet me? My office @KTRoffice will coordinate the meeting,” the minister wrote on his official Twitter handle, on Sunday.“Firstly, the university has not had a permanent vice chancellor for several years now and most faculty posts are filled even without issuing notifications for the same and there is no transparency in the way the management of the university functions. HYDERABAD: After several students of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) reached out to Information Technology (IT) and MAUD minister KT Rama Rao, on social media, alleging the management of indulging in corrupt practices , the minister on Sunday, requested a delegation of students to meet him in person.Students of the Basar-based university have taken to social media platforms over the past two days with the tagline #corruptionfreergukt after second-year engineering student Anusha reportedly committed suicide on Saturday. The freedom of nearly 6,500 students of the university is also infringed upon and even for stepping out of the campus, one has to secure an ‘Out Pass’ from authorities,” said a student, who did not want to be identified.Students also claimed that the health centre on the campus was only equipped with saline and paracetamol and there was no water supply to the boys’ hostels last week.A Ashok, Vice Chancellor I/c of RGUKT Basar, Commissioner of Intermediate Education and Secretary of the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) could not be reached for a comment..