The Ravenshaw Bikash Abhijan on Wednesday slammed the Ravenshaw University authorities for closing the university for three days and asking students to leave hostels.
“The university authorities have curshed the rights of students,” alleged Abhiyan members at a Press meet held here on Saturday.
Abhijan president Chittaranjan Mohanty said the authorities were forced to lift the sine die under the pressure the general public. But till now the authorities have not revoked the decision of converting the regular courses into partial self-financing courses and introducing new self-financing courses, he alleged.
He said the Abhijan would continue to fight for saving the university from being commercialized and privatised by creating awareness among people through street corner meetings, conventions and distribution of leaflets.
Among others, Satyaray, Prasant Das, Prasant Panda, Jugalakishore Nayak, Khageswar Sethi, Sukant Nayak, Dolly Das, Shibasis Praharaj, Bobby Balabantaray, Bhagyarabi Das and Pavel Pridarshan were present.