Homeo students set deadline for re-checking

BHUBANESWAR: Students of Dr Abhin Chandra Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital here on Tuesday set a two-day deadline for the college authorities to take steps to revaluate the back papers of seven students, who flunked the tests. "We gave a memorandum to the principal requesting him to facilitate rechecking of papers of the seven students. If our demand is not fulfilled within two days, we will protest," said Soumya Ranjan Pani, a student.
Campus of the government-run college had turned into battlefield on Monday after students ransacked the office rooms in protest against the alleged faulty evaluation. While four third-year students of bachelor in homeopathy medicine and surgery department successfully cleared their back papers, all the seven girls of first year failed to clear the papers. Aggrieved students smashed glass windows of the office, computer laboratory and damaged an ambulance.
"I have communicated the demand of students to the examination controller of Utkal University, which evaluated the papers," college principal Dr Surya Narayan Mishra said. He lodged a complaint against unknown students, who vandalized the college property on Monday.
Students demanded ouster of two college teachers, who allegedly threatened them to spoil their career in the past. "College authorities purposely targeted us because we had been raising our voice against poor teaching facility here. They had threatened not to spare us in the examination," said Lipsarani Pradhan, another student.
"The college is reeling under a series of problems like staff shortage, poor infrastructure and academic atmosphere," Pradhan said. Principal Dr Mishra said steps are being taken to improve infrastructure in the college.