Regarding the cap on admissions in various bachelor degree courses in government degree colleges and government- aided degree colleges, Uttarakhand High Court heard all petitioners on Wednesday and the Court may give its verdict on Thursday. Regarding the installation of biometric system for recording teachers' attendance, High Court has set the next hearing on August 28. Meanwhile, admissions in various government degree colleges and government -aided degree colleges have remained disrupted, as the student leaders have not allowed the college administration to start the admission on Wednesday.
Ranging from students aspiring for admissions in various Bachelor degree courses this year in government and government-aided- colleges, the students’ leaders now on stir, government degree college staff members to higher education officers and state government officers-all eyes are now fixed on High Court's fresh order likely to be pronounced on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the leaders of various students’ groups of DAV (PG) College under the banner of College Bachao Sangharsh Samiti continued with their protest outside the college gate, disrupting admission process on Wednesday too. The protesters were heard shouting anti-college administration slogans that demanded resignation of the college principal Bhasin for having failed to ensure basic amenities and to foster the right academic ambience in the college. Police forces were deployed adequately, but they chose to sit idle as on the previous days.
Students’ leaders demand that like previous years, all the students who apply for admissions should be allowed this year too to enroll on various degree courses in government degree colleges and government -aided degree colleges in the state until new government colleges come up to accommodate the large number of students who pass their class XII board examination each year.
In DBS (PG) College too, admission process could not begin as the stir dragged on. To further press the state government to make its stance clear on the tricky admission stalemate, students’ leaders have decided to ghearo the Secretariat on Thursday.
Moreover, DAV (PG) College principal, Devendra Bhasin said that admission process in the DAV (PG) College is being adversely impacted with the students’ leaders continuing their agitation outside the college campus and police refusing to act tough on the disrupters since Monday.
He said, “We have started admission process in the college, but the students’ leaders forcibly barged into the admission counter to stop the process and later protested within the campus.”