The ABVP on Wednesday observed a State-wide bandh of technical colleges under the BPUT protesting ‘injustice’ meted out to students and teachers by the university authorities.
Though the BPUT has taken Rs 40 lakh from 40,000 students, it is yet to give a job to anyone of them and release arrear salaries to lecturers. The university has not published results and pushed the future of the students to dark, alleged members of the ABVP, Bhubaneswar Mahanagar Branch while stopping buses of technical institutes at Khandagiri here.
The activists stopped around 200 buses and kept them stranded at Khandagiri, informed a release.
They threatened that the protests would be intensified further until the State Government and BPUT authorities have not met their demands and given clarification regarding job fairs.
ABVP Technical Student Cell coordinator Aparnesh Mantri said such agitations were organised at Rourkela, Cuttack and Brahmapur to which concerned college teachers supported openly.
ABVP State vice-president Er Smrutiranjan Biswal, secretary Ahilash Panda, Bhubaneswar Mahanagar secretary Gama Sigma and national executive member Bailochan Sahoo participated in the protest.