The student union of the DAV college here gheraoed the Principal, Rakesh Verma on Monday demanding that the number of seats in the biggest college of the State should be increased. The agitated students also burned the effigy of the college management for not heeding their demand.
It is worth mentioning here that the process of admissions in many Graduate and Post Graduate courses in the college started on Monday. The President of the student union of the college, Rakesh Negi said that the 18 new rooms have been constructed in the college campus so there is an adequate space for increasing the input of students into the college.
He said that repeated pleas of the students for increasing the number of seats have fallen on deaf ears and the management is not keen to solve the problems of the students. The students requested the Principal to initiate dialogue with the management on the important issue.
The members of the students said that the agitation would be intensified if the justified demand of the students is ignored further. The students later burned the effigy of college management amid shouting of slogans.
The General Secretary of the student union Sachin Thapliyal and other student leaders were present on the occasion.