The All India Democratic Students Organisatoin (AIDSO) and the All India Save Education Committee (AISEC) on Friday demanded withdrawal of the Odisha University Amendment Ordinance 2020 at the earliest.
AIDSO activists led by Cuttack committee president Bhagyarabi Das, VP Tarunsen Nayak and Secretary Binod Sethi staged a demonstration in front of the Ravenshaw University also demanded withdrawal of the decision of scrapping Ravenshaw University Act 2005 and sought allocation of adequate funds for the universities.“The decision of making teacher recruitments though the OPSC, scrapping Senate system and sending a Government representative to Vice-Chancellor Selection Committee in place of a Syndicate representative are all undemocratic and anti-teacher and anti-student moves,” said the protestors.
In Bhubaneswar, the All India Save Education Committee submitted a memorandum, signed by over a hundred of intellectuals, to Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal, demanding withdrawal the ordinance.
“The new system will pave way for political and bureaucratic interference in the management of universities and take away autonomy from them,” alleged signatories.
Among others, Prof Swadhin Patnaik, former Director of Institute of Mathematics, Surendra Mohan Pani, former Principal of Radhanath Institute of Advanced Studies in Education.