Admn fails to shift forces from College
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 16: Despite class work resuming at all the educational institutions in the Valley, Kashmir Government Polytechnic College at Gogji Bagh in Srinagar continued to remain shut since August.
As the para-military forces are occupying the premises of the college, since August, they (students) today demanded that the forces should be relocated immediately and the class work should resume without any further delay.
Scores of the students enrolled for various courses at the College held protest demonstrations against the district administration outside the College premises for failing in vacating the forces, due to which their studies are suffering immensely.
“Since August our college is shut and now that some sort of normalcy has been restored and educational institutions have resumed their work, the only thing that we are getting to hear is that the College will not be opened as the forces are occupying its premises for last more than 4 months now,” said Bisma Rashid, a student.
Alleging that the district administration was not taking them seriously, the students said: “In August the college was closed for the renovation purposes, but now the Principal is categorically telling us to approach the Deputy Commissioner. We went to the DC. However, for last more than one month he is trying to evade us on one pretext or the other. He has failed in getting our college started; even Divisional Commissioner is only giving us assurances and nothing else,” she said.
They also said that the administration has been telling them to attend classes in the library and has utterly failed to clear the building.
“The district administration is telling them that only a portion of their college premise has been occupied, which is wrong, only library is open rest stands occupied. The irony being that the administration is telling them that the class work will be started but then they will have to attend classes in the library,” the students said, adding that even the students have been vacated from the hostel and are not even allowed to collect their belongings.
The distressed students told Excelsior that their courses are technical in nature and they are having no option but to complete the syllabus in order to appear in the examination being held in February. “Not even one per cent of our syllabus has been completed yet and we cannot do it on own; the class work has to resume come what may,” they demanded.
Appealing the district administration to immediately initiate measures to clear out the building, the students said that they (administration) should bear this in mind that they are suffering and so are their studies. “If the affairs continue to remain the same, we will be forced to boycott the exams that have been scheduled,” they said.
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