Well said somehow.
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> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:42:29 +0000
> Subject: [Assam] DU Stand-Off
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> All the student organizations are lending their support to DU students
> protesting fee hike. But the VC of DU KC Deka seems to be man of courage and
> principle. Students may view it as arrogance. But university authority needs
> money as government does not give much. If the VC is forced to go because of
> student agitation, it will be unfortunate.At the same time can anything be
> done to alleviate the burden on students, if fee hike is really too much?
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> Unfortunatly , parents of the same students will be willing/compelled to pay
> through their nose had their wards been studing in private some south indian
> engineering colleges after not getting admission in any of the state
> colleges/universities.
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> Varsity fee hike stand-off on - DU students demand VC ouster; organisations
> back agitation, call bandh
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> OUR CORRESPONDENT
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> Dibrugarh, Aug. 26: The unrest in Dibrugarh University (DU) since Tuesday
> took a turn for the worse today with both the students and authorities
> sticking to their respective grounds on the fee hike issue and the
> “vice-chancellor ouster cry” getting shriller.
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> Students hoisted black flags in all the departments of the campus, the
> vice-chancellor’s office and the main administrative block since early
> morning in protest against the “arrogant” attitude of the authorities on the
> issue.
> The students also wore black badges and organised a demonstration in front of
> the locked vice-chancellor’s office in clear defiance of prohibitory orders
> issued by the Dibrugarh district administration under Section 144 CrPc.
> Carrying placards, banners and festoons, the students also shouted slogans
> demanding the ouster of university vice-chancellor Kandarpa Kumar Deka.
> “Initially, our demand was an immediate rollback of the hiked fee structure.
> But now the ouster of the arrogant VC is our main demand. We will not stop
> our agitation and are prepared to face bullets,” said Arindam Buragohain, the
> general secretary of the Dibrugarh University Post- Graduate Students Union
> (DUPGSU).
> The students are agitating on the fee hike issue under the leadership of the
> union and All Assam Students’ Union.
> As the VC entered the main administrative building today, the students laid
> siege to it, besides blocking the main entrance to the building.
> The students, after an hour of demonstration, took out a mock funeral
> procession on the campus.
> “The vice-chancellor had shown total disrespect towards the genuine demands
> of the students. The VC had even asked the administration and police to
> forcefully thwart our agitation. Therefore, we had no other option. We demand
> that a new VC be appointed at DU,” Buragohain said.
> The protesters also launched a signature campaign among the students.
> “We will submit the signatures along with a memorandum to the Governor and
> chancellor J.B. Patnaik demanding immediate removal of the vice-chancellor
> and appointment of a new VC who will be sympathetic to our demands, Kasturi
> Nath, president-in-charge of the DUPGSU, said.
> The district administration, which had issued prohibitory orders on
> Wednesday, apparently did not impose them in the first half of the day.
> However, in the afternoon, a huge police contingent, led by additional SP
> (headquarters), Debashish Sarma, entered the campus and urged students to
> disperse.
> The students, till the filing of this report, were locked in talks with
> Dibrugarh additional DC Bandana Dutta Tamuli and magistrate Sarangapani
> Sarma.
> When contacted over phone, the vice-chancellor said the university
> administration was open to holding discussions on the fee hike. “All issues
> can be settled through discussions only. However, if the students remain
> arrogant, we, too, will be compelled to initiate harsher action,” he said.
> The All Assam Muttock Yuba Chatra Sanmelan, Tai-Ahom Yuba Parishad, All Assam
> Tea Tribes Students’ Association, All Koch-Rajbongshi Students’ Union,
> Sonowal-Kachari Students’ Union, All Deori Students’ Union and Asom
> Jatiyatabadi Yuba Parishad have extended support to the agitation. They have
> even called a 12-hour Dibrugarh district bandh on August 31 on the issue.
> The North East Students Organisation, too, has extended support to the
> agitation. NESO secretary general Gumjum Haider told reporters that the
> university would have to withdraw the hiked fee structure.
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