Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) once again appears standing on the verge of lasting protests from Ranchi Veterinary College students who have sat for hunger strike on Thursday with their demands of readmission of five colleagues in their respective existing courses who have been denied upgradation by University vice-chancellor on so called non-adherence to the attendance norms of the University.
The students are also seeking appointment of a superintendent of their wing other than election of student leaders in absence of whom they have lost their voices to be heard by vice-chancellor Parvinder Kaushal. The protesters anarchy in the university and that there is no one bothered to resolve issues.
The whole episode of the day was written around five students of 2017-18 batch who had been waiting for the results of medical entrance examination and wanted delayed admission after they failed to crack it. One of the demonstrating students said that the five students were denied admission despite assurance from university administration.
“It is true that the students under consideration appeared off late for admission. But waiting for medical entrance examination results and coming to get admitted in their existing courses here in veterinary college is not a new practice. Moreover, they have not been denied admission prior to this. The problem is that the VC is not at all willing to listen to any of the students,” said a student seeking not to be named.
University PRO Sandeep Kumar however defended the V-C saying that what he was doing on this particular issue was not wrong. “If someone is non-eligible for something on legitimate grounds, you can’t question the V-C as to why he didn’t listen to the students. Ultimately, he has been brought here to fix things,” said Kumar. Kaushal, at the same time, chose not to react on the episode on the day when contacted.
A senior official of the University said that lot many issues could have been resolved in more amicable ways in the past which otherwise earned bad names to the university.
Notably, the V-C had decided to close the college sine die on September 13 and had shown 150 students way out of their hostels. They were recalled in phased manner after intervention of Principal Secretary to the Governor SK Satpathi.