Siddha students stage sit-in protest
TIRUNELVELI, DECEMBER 13, 2018 00:00 IST
Students of Government Siddha Medical College staging a dharna in Palayamkottai on Wednesday.M. Lakshmiarunm_lakshmiarun
Demand a new hostel building and better basic amenities
Demanding a new hostel building and better basic amenities in the college, students of Government Siddha Medical College in Palayamkottai staged sit-in dharna for a while on their college premises on Wednesday.
While the women’s hostels functioning on the college premises is battling acute water crisis for the past several years, the men’s hostel at Vannarpet, a dilapidated structure, is to be razed down shortly. As precursor, the hostel students have been asked to move out. The affected male students staged dharna on the college premises on Wednesday demanding a temporary hostel with mess facility until the new hostel building comes-up. As the students started raising slogans to highlight their demand, police personnel were deployed in the college campus.
The protesting students said they were asked to move out of the hostel to facilitate the demolition of the existing hostel building in deplorable condition with the assurance that temporary hostel with mess would be created within 90 days.
“However, the officials have comfortably forgotten the promise they gave. While no step has been taken to commence the construction of the new hostel, there is no sign of starting the temporary hostel with mess so as to help the students studying from various parts of Tamil Nadu. If not, we’ll continue to agitate against the official apathy,” they said.
The college authorities assured the protesting students that their demand would be forwarded to the government and informed them that they would be temporarily settled down in a hostel built near Reddiyarpatti on Palayamkottai outskirts for the Government Law College students, which is yet to be occupied. However, the protestors refused to accept it and continued their agitation even after 8.15 p.m.
TIRUNELVELI, DECEMBER 13, 2018 00:00 IST
Students of Government Siddha Medical College staging a dharna in Palayamkottai on Wednesday.M. Lakshmiarunm_lakshmiarun
Demand a new hostel building and better basic amenities
Demanding a new hostel building and better basic amenities in the college, students of Government Siddha Medical College in Palayamkottai staged sit-in dharna for a while on their college premises on Wednesday.
While the women’s hostels functioning on the college premises is battling acute water crisis for the past several years, the men’s hostel at Vannarpet, a dilapidated structure, is to be razed down shortly. As precursor, the hostel students have been asked to move out. The affected male students staged dharna on the college premises on Wednesday demanding a temporary hostel with mess facility until the new hostel building comes-up. As the students started raising slogans to highlight their demand, police personnel were deployed in the college campus.
The protesting students said they were asked to move out of the hostel to facilitate the demolition of the existing hostel building in deplorable condition with the assurance that temporary hostel with mess would be created within 90 days.
“However, the officials have comfortably forgotten the promise they gave. While no step has been taken to commence the construction of the new hostel, there is no sign of starting the temporary hostel with mess so as to help the students studying from various parts of Tamil Nadu. If not, we’ll continue to agitate against the official apathy,” they said.
The college authorities assured the protesting students that their demand would be forwarded to the government and informed them that they would be temporarily settled down in a hostel built near Reddiyarpatti on Palayamkottai outskirts for the Government Law College students, which is yet to be occupied. However, the protestors refused to accept it and continued their agitation even after 8.15 p.m.
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