Accusing the State Government of failing to advocate strongly in Uttarakhand High Court vis-a-vis the latter’s merit-based admission ruling, the leaders of various students’ groups of DAV (PG) College under the banner of College Bachao Sangharsh Samiti gheraoed the Secretariat on Thursday.
The protesters also shouted anti-college administration slogans, demanding resignation of the college principal Dr Devendra Bhasin for the same. The district administration deployed police forces adequately in the college campus and Secretariat. Police personnel were seen shadowing the rally till the protesters reached Secretariat.
The protesters staged a sit-in at police barricade posted outside the Secretariat and demanded the state government to force the college to follow last year’s admission process this year too. later, they submitted a memorandum to the City Magistrate GC Gunwant at barricade outside Secretariat.Anshul Chawla, former college students’ union president said that around 1.37 lakh students had passed their Class XII from Uttarakhand Board Examination this year. Recently, High Court had issued guidelines to the colleges to enroll students on sanctioned seats. In the previous years, around 30, 000 students were enrolled in the DAV (PG) College, but from this year onwards, only 12, 500 students will get admission on various bachelor degree courses. Despite the State Government planning to introduce evening classes higher education would remain out of bounds for a large number of students. He alleged that the state government had failed to advocate strongly in Uttarakhand High Court against its merit-based admission ruling.