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RIT students turn violent, oppose fee hike

Ajay Samar

Students of Ramgovind Institute of Technology continued agitating against fee hike on the fourth day on Monday.

First year students of the institute have been protesting for the upward revision in fee.

Students turned violent and broke window panes and damaged some of the buses on Friday. One delegation from college met DC K Ravi Kumar to brief the situation and accordingly SDO Sunil Kumar was instructed to do the required conciliation.

On Monday, at 10 am an irate students put a blockade on road near Charadih to block movement of college buses. Nearby residents got perturbed and they resisted the blockade-move by students. 

After facing villagers resistance, students had to remove the blockade.

However they reached college campus and started with demonstration creating ruckus. With SDO Sunil Kumar, ASP Naushad Alam and BDO Prabhash Kumar Dutta making efforts to appease students who have been alleging arbitrary fee revision by college management.College management’s contention is that the matter of fee hike is with ‘fixation committee’ who decides the matter and its role is confined to implementation of the committee’s decision only.

Students set ablaze the generator by the time of this report being sent.