Members of the All Odisha Biju Patnaik University of Technology Students’ Association on Thursday staged a dharna in front of the BPUT office at Gandamunda here to press for their various demands.
They demanded that results of 7th, 5th, 3rd and 1st Semester examinations be published soon and the Even Semester Regular Exams be changed. Similarly, they demanded that examination for the Even Semester back paper be conducted before the regular 8th Semester Exams These apart, they wanted that students of 2010-14 Batch be given provisional certificates and Gandamunda office be made full-fledged.
Student leaders like Adyaprana Subuddhi, Amarendra Dhal, Arabinda Pradhan, Tarini Prasad Nayak, Sarthak Mohapatra, Diptiranjan Pal, Parthasarathi Mohapatra, Chitrasena Swain, Rakesh Pradhan, Sabyasachi Mahakud, Rashmiranjan Das, Jayadev Pradhan, Krushna Chandra Jena and Sohaib Khan sat in the dharna.
later they met ET&ET Minister Sanjay Dashburma and discussed with him on the demands. Dashburma assured them that he would convene a meeting of varsity top officers over their demands.