The students of Doon University continued their protest against the State Government’s decision of renaming the university to Maharshi Valmiki Doon University on the eighth day on Monday. Meanwhile, a delegation of protesting students met the university Vice-Chancellor VK Jain and asked the status of the memorandum submitted to him earlier.
The Vice-Chancellor told the students that their stand would be represented adequately in front of higher authorities. There was no proper communication from Government on this matter, he disclosed. He, however, pointed out that an executive committee would meet on March 24 and he would raise this issue in the meeting. The Vice-Chancellor told the students to attend their classes.
According to protesting students, all the Doon University students respected and honoured Maharishi Valmiki as he was a great saint and poet.Aditi Rawat, MSc (Economics) student of the university said, “We are protesting against Cabinet’s decision to change Doon University’s name to Maharshi Valmiki Doon University.
“Students wanted that the name of the university to remain unchanged. We are not against him. We just want our identity to stay so that our university also can represent our State Uttarakhand in higher education like other state universities lucknow University represents UP, Shimla University represents Himachal Pradesh, Delhi University represents Delhi and others,” she said.