lecturers and staffs of various non-Government art and music colleges across the State held a rally at the lower PMG here on Tuesday pressing for fulfilment of a four-point charter of demands, including grant-in-aid, for them.
Besides lecturers and staffs, students of such colleges, all under the banner of the Odisha Kala Mahavidyalaya Ashyapaka O Karmachari Sangha (OKMAOKA), joined the rally and stage demonstration.
The other demands include provision of scholarship and other benefits to the students as that of the Government music and art colleges, financial aid to institutions for promotion of art and music, and provision of modern equipment to the students for better education.
later, a group of the Sangha members led by secretary Panchanan Samal, advisor Sudarshan Das, executive president Kamalakant Biswal and vice-president Manoj Bhattacharya submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik through his Additional Secretary.
The lecturers and staffs, who have been sitting on dharna for the last four days, threatened to continue their stir until and unless their demands are not met.