Tension prevailed at the Utkal University on Monday after some students locked the gate of the Examination Control Room and staged a protest against the apathetic attitude of the authorities and lack of development work in the university.
The students have been demanding, among others, immediate fulfilment of vacant teaching and nonteaching posts, repairs of defunct ambulances of the university and transfer of the Registrar. College authorities coming from across the State to collect the question and answer papers for the Plus III final year examinations scheduled to begin from Wednesday faced problem as the students locked the examination control room. later, following the intervention of the authorities, the student called off the protest.