There was once a time when having a mobile phone in Anna University or its affiliated colleges, means confiscation and heavy fines for students. People used to hide the phones in various places and kept it in silent mode. There even used to be occassional raids and a bunch of phones would be taken off.

Now all those days are gone. Anna University’s new Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Mannar Jawahar has lifted the ban on use of mobile phones in the campus. Students are still not permitted to use it in class, but outside it they are free to use it. Atlast the university has got a sane person to be a VC who has realised that even with all the ban, people used to flaunt with their N-Series phones.

Even though the University has relaxed the ban, there will still be some colleges which will continue with the ban and make really stupid arguments saying that mobiles only lead to poor performance in studies. And it would take a lot more than a new VC to change such colleges.