It's your money or our career

CHANDIGARH: Call it sheer solidarity or mere xenophobia. Differences sink as the hat passes round the campus of Punjab Engineering College (PEC).
The PECers are raising money to pay the lawyers for a fresh appeal in high court against the inclusion of 120 Chandigarh college of engineering and technology (CCET) students in their college.
With ranks closed and hearts open, it is now no longer a matter concerning only students of the third-year batch, which has the CCET seats.
When they pitched it strong, they found others in there pitching; so much so only hostlers from different streams have pooled up more than Rs 1 lakh so far.
During the first appeal, the court had left it to the three agencies -PEC, CCET and the administration - to decide whether the students from CCET should stay in PEC or be sent back to the mother institution.
"With the AICTE directive that clearly states that the presence of CCET students has added burden to the infrastructure available to PEC students, it is clear that of the three agencies, two have gone in favour of sending the students back," claim the students.
The added numbers have already started weighing down the infrastructure. There is trouble in tutorials.
"Instead of dividing us into four groups of 15 each, as has been the practice, we are herded in a class of 60 as if it were a lecture," complain the students who have boycotted tutorials taken in larger group.