Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, Aug 28: Under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, students of polytechnic here boycotted classes and staged a flash protest demonstration in front of the college on Wednesday August 27. The students said that the vice principal of the college, with the support of a lady lecturer, has been inflicting mental torture on the students of the institution.
The students demanded immediate suspension or transfer of vice principal, Dr Chinnagiri Gowda, and lecturer, Tejaswini, alleging that these two had been creating trouble for the students in classes and denting their confidence and self respect. Parents of students also came in support of the students, and condemned the attitude of these two faculty members of the college.
It is said that behind-the-scene misgivings, differences of opinion, and rivalry that has been in the air among the teaching staff of the college since sometime has been posing a question mark on the future of the students. It is said that both Dr Gowda and lecturer in science department, Tejaswini, had been often choosing not to take classes because of the said rivalry. The students said they have to be prepared to face internal examinations scheduled to be held shortly, and whenever they approached the said lecturers for taking classes, the concerned unnecessarily harassed students at their classes without reason.
'We had been keeping quiet out of respect for the teaching staff. As the harassment became unbearable, we had brought the same to the notice of the principal, but no positive result came out of this action. The fact that the said lady lecturer had branded a student named Jitesh as a goonda just because he had participated in the protest programme organized by a student organization had angered the student community. Throwing of bags on students, asking the students to squat on the floor without any reason or provocation, tearing down books when even small mistakes are found in the work done by the students, are some of the actions which we abhor. We cannot take this anymore, and hence have decided to protest,' the students explained.
The students are now hoping that this protest will bear some fruit.