The agitating students of the General Nursing Midwifery Tanning School under the MCl run Nehru Satabdi Central Hospital here held a meeting with the local administration and after assurances, called off their stir.
According to sources, the nursing students brought many complaints against the authorities before the administration during the meeting like staff shortage in their institution, denial of minimum facilities, besides less stipend paid to them compared to other schools.
They apprised that on March 29, all the 116 students of GNMT School wrote a letter to the various departments of MCl ltd including CMD, DT, DP, CVO, DF etc, besides the Angul Collector, the SP, the Talcher Sub Collector and the SDPO over their 10-point charter of demands, but failed to get any relief. They had threatened to launch a strike from April 25 if their problems were not sorted out. The demanded school bus for attending community duty relating to their courses, establishment of a laboratory, library and a visitors room in the students hostel, appointment of sister tutors and timely completion of syllabus, etc. They said that they get no suitable accommodation and have to adjust in B and D type quarters with much difficulty. The management agreed to provide the facilities but in vain.
They told in the meeting that they are getting monthly stipend which is less than the stipend being paid to the students in other schools.
Among others MlA Brajakishore Pradhan, Sub Collector Purna Chandra Dalai, Deputy Collector Daridrabhanjan Madanmohan Patra, Assistant Collector Rashmita Nath, students’ representatives Sanjeeta Behera, Monalisa Das, Nirmal Behera, Rakesh Kumar Sahu, Alok Nayak, Monalisha Mohapatra, Madhumita Mohanty, Rosy Das and Manorama Behera were present.