To protest the assault on Dr Ashish Dahiya, Director, Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management (IHTM) of MDU, by a student on Monday, teaching and non-teaching employees of Maharshi Dayanand University on Tuesday took out a procession on the university campus and submitted a memorandum to Vice Chancellor HS Chahal on Tuesday.
The memorandum demanded adequate security arrangements on the university campus to ensure the safety of teachers, non-teaching employees and students. The V-C assured the protesters of taking vital steps to strengthen the security arrangements in the varsity to prevent any untoward incident. He asked non-teaching employees and students to carry their identity card every time for their identification.
The process was taken out under the joint aegis of MDU Teachers’ and Non-Teaching Associations.Earlier, the teachers and non-teaching employees gathered on the varsity campus and expressed their concern over rising incident of violence in the university.They said there was an urgent need of strengthening the security arrangements to keep the campus away from criminal activities.