With the students forcing a lockout in the college, the ruckus in the DAV College over admissions in the evening classes continued on Wednesday. The students retorted to vandalism in the college premises as they broke window panes, computers and other office machineries in a fit of rage. The rampaging group of students threw the chairs and tables out from the office of principal. The policemen, who were deployed in the college campus remained mute spectators while students were rampaging.
On Wednesday morning, all the major student unions the ABVP, NSUI, and Aryan group of DAV College together organised a joint protest outside the main entrance of the college. After the high voltage drama on Tuesday, when six students scaled different telecommunication towers of the city, the students were hopeful that some positive results would emerge on the issue of evening classes as Chief Minister Harish Rawat has assured them that he would take up the issue with the college management. On the assurance of CM, these students had descended from the mobile towers. The patience of students wore off on Wednesday afternoon when they realised that the team of the management from Kanpur has not arrived, after which a mob of students engaged in vandalism in the campus destroying the property of the college. The Dalanwala police station has lodged a FIR against unknown students on the complaint of college Principal Dr Devendra Bhasin.
The issue of evening classes in DAV College which is the biggest college of the state has reached to the flash point. It appears that the adamant attitude of college teachers, DAV college management and state government has resulted in the present state of the affairs. The management is adamant that it reserves the right of appointing the teachers even if they are temporary, the higher education department officials insist that the college should start the evening classes as per the norms and the college teachers are adamant not to teach in these classes.
The State government had devised the scheme of evening classes to accommodate large number of left out students after the High Court put a restriction in the maximum number of seats in the colleges of the state in its judgment while hearing petition of Daulat Ram Semwal.