On 31 October, the student community of TISS Hyderabad discovered via a newspaper advertisement that the BA Social Sciences (BASS) course has been deferred from the next year for an unspecified period of time. Furthermore, it was implied that the campus would be non-residential from 2019.

When no accountability or transparency was forthcoming from the administration, the Student Council 2018-2019 decided to go for a fee boycott, wherein the students would not pay the fees for the next semester until they were provided with clarifications.