Bihar premier Patna College situated within the state capital, the place each Chancellor’s secretariat and division of schooling operate from, is underneath locks for over every week and all exams have been cancelled because of the ongoing indefinite strike by the college staff affiliation in help of their calls for.
The Wednesday’s talks between the college authorities and the affiliation leaders at scheduled 2 pm, which was mounted on Tuesday, couldn’t happen, as they didn’t flip up. (HT FILE)
Losers are the scholars who have been set to take their semester exams from December 5 when the strike began. However greater than the strike, which isn’t uncommon within the election 12 months, what has come as a shock is that the establishments have been put underneath locks and the college authorities couldn’t get them eliminated or damaged to make sure easy exams, as school employees or lecturers usually are not on strike.
The Wednesday’s talks between the college authorities and the affiliation leaders at scheduled 2 pm, which was mounted on Tuesday, couldn’t happen, as they didn’t flip up. The attraction of the college to the staff to return to work on Monday has additionally remained unheeded. The college had via a communique on December 7 cancelled all exams until additional orders.
“All the university officials were waiting for the meeting at the scheduled time, but the employees’ representatives did not turn up till 4 pm. They have informed the registrar that they will not attend today’s meeting,” mentioned Dean, College students’ Welfare, Anil Kumar.
On Tuesday, all of the principals, heads of departments and college officers held a gathering underneath the chairmanship of vice chancellor Ajay Kumar Singh to debate the state of affairs arising because of strike and determined to ask affiliate leaders once more for talks to resolve the difficulty.
Speaking to media individuals, the VC Ajay Kumar Singh mentioned that a number of rounds of talks had been held with the designated committee of the staff’s physique and there was consensus on a number of calls for, however “for some of the demands having financial implications, it was told to them that a letter has already been written to the state government, as the university could not take a call on them”.
“I took the charge as VC on July 3 and it is unprecedented that within 3-4 months first the students resorted to agitation and now the employees despite taking a number of measures in their interest. In the interest of the students, I have been in touch with the employees union from day one after they went on strike. It is unfortunate that the students have had to suffer due to strike,” the VC added.
Earlier, the scholars’ agitation in help of their demand for pending college students’ union election and allotment of hostels, which had been closed following unrest, had affected the college. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who’s the chancellor of state universities, had additionally held a gathering with the college high brass and college students’ leaders on November 28 on the Raj Bhawan. Expressing displeasure over the continuation of Dean (College students’ Welfare) and Proctor past their tenure, Raj Bhawan additionally issued a letter to the VC on November 29 looking for recent names, making it clear that or not it’s handled as high precedence.
Apparently, whereas the scholars are the worst victims, the Patna College College students’ Union (PUSU), led by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Paishad (ABVP), which is supposed to champion the reason for college students, additionally prolonged its help to the placing staff via a letter. Later, the ABVP, via a separate letter, additionally demanded restoration of lessons and conduct of exams.
Nevertheless, the staff’ physique have stored up their stress, staging demonstration in all the universities underneath Patna College, VC’s residence and refuted any final result of talks with the college administration on December 5-6. “The report prepared by the university was totally different from the agreement reached and it does not have the signature of any leader of the association. It is a fake document meant to mislead and shows the wrong intent of the university,” mentioned the affiliation leaders.
They mentioned that neither the VC was holding talks with them nor have been the officers speaking him correctly and giving him mistaken suggestions. “We appeal to the VC to sympathetically consider the demands of the association. The association never wants to keep the university under locks, but we have been forced to do so,” they added.
The principle calls for of the affiliation embrace respectable behaviour with the staff, pay fixation and backlog arrear cost, yet one more member to be added to Senate and Syndicate every, housing facility for workers, promotion, enable services like advance for automobile, marriage, medical insurance coverage and so on., decision of points associated to wage/pension of distance schooling directorate amongst others.