Many technical education institutions in the State remained closed on Fridayas students supported the bandh call given by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) over the alleged disorder in the technical education sector.
“Many technical educational institutions at Baleswar, Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur, Rourkela and Brahmpur were closed for the day as students supported the Bandh call,” said ABVP Technical Education Cell’s assistant coordinator Er Smrutiranjan Biswal.
Similarly, student activists too staged an agitation here opposing ‘fruitless’ job fairs of the Government and demanding return of lakhs of rupees taken by dalals from unemployed technical students on the promise of jobs. They too demanded that the BPUT camp office be brought to Bhubaneswar soon and dismissal of corrupt officials who have stood on the way of BPUT development. Besides, they wanted that industrial units operating in State give jobs to more Odia students on a priority basis and justice for the students studying in technical education institutions which have not been affiliated to the AICTE. Biswal said ABVP would organise a massive rally, involving 10,000 technological students, onSeptember 11 if the Government doesn’t fulfill their demands by then.
On this occasion, the students burnt the effigy of Employment and Technical Education and Training Minister Sanjay Kumar Dasburma.
Among others, Ashis Kumar Barisal, Satyaprakash Mishra, Aparnesh Mantri, Pravash Kumar Padhi, Tapan Kumar Gouda and Bibhuprasad Dash led Bandh agitation at various places. ABVP national executive member Ipsita Harichandan, Bailochan Sahoo, State secretary Pramod Rout, Bhubaneswar Municipal coordinator Abhilash Panda, secretary Chhatrapati Shibaji Jena and State Assistant Secretary Sujit Kumar Nayak were present.