Protesting against the attitude of the college authority on long standing demands, hundreds of students of the Kendrapada Autonomous College on Friday held a demonstration in front of Collectorate.
The students led by college union president Saswata Mohapatra took out a rally from college premises to district collectorate office. later, the the students staged a dharna there.
The agitating students alleged that though they had umpteen times brought their genuine demands before the college authority, but the latter did not pay any heed to them. The State Government has been providing crores of rupees for the college development but the students are not getting the benefits and there has been no perceptible change in the deteriorating academic atmosphere of the college, the students charged.
The students demanded filling teachers’ vacancy, introduction of tutorial classes, construction of road and compound wall of the college, posting of gate keeper at the main gate, opening of the reading room from 8 am to 8 pm, construction of two grand UGC projects, including new ladies hostel and stadium which remained incomplete till date and development, beautification and regular running of boys common rooms, girls common room, gym and garden. later, the student representatives met District Collector Niranjan Nayak at his office.