MKP (PG) College students protested at Collectorate and submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate on Wednesday, demanding the vacant posts of the teaching staff members in the college to be filled immediately. However, DM Chandresh Kumar called a meeting of college principal to discuss the issue on October 18.
Dozens of students assembled in the college campus and took out a rally that proceeded to the Collectorate. The protesters said that studies in various departments are being adversely affected due to the shortage of the teaching staff in the college. In the memorandum to the DM, it was stated that there has been shortage of 17 teachers in various departments, including two in Sociology, two in Political Science, one in Music, two in Home Science, one in Zoology, two in psychology and two in Sociology.
In addition to this, several rooms are in the college are dilapidated and other arrangements for them are not in the right shape. Following staff crunch and other infrastructural constraints, number of students keeps decreasing in the college every year. large numbers of seats in various departments are vacant in the college this year because of the same. Among the protesters were Anjali, Sakshi, Sapna, Karishma, Mamta, Anchal, Reena Panwar, Jyoti, Sushmita and Anuradha.