College principal, teachers stage dharna against indiscipline

BEGUSARAI: In a sort of role reversal, teaching and non-teaching staff of the local G D College on Thursday staged a daylong dharna against the growing indiscipline by various student organizations on the college campus. The teachers and non-teaching employees also abstained from their regular work to register protest. College principal, Chandra Bhanu Prasad Singh, was seen sitting on the ground in open and operating his office from there in a show of disgust towards the growing interference and indiscipline by various student organizations in the day-to-day functioning.The drama unfolded after one of the students' wings disrupted the functioning of the college on Tuesday in protest against the anomalies in the list published by the LNMU University for PG admissions.Singh said, of late activists of these student organizations seem to have picked up the habit of coming to his office without any prior notice with some indiscreet demand and then disrupting the functioning of the college often posing threat to the safety of the teachers and the employees. "I have intimated the university officials about the situation. The college teachers and the staff resorted to this method to let them feel for their behaviour," he said. Meanwhile, the trick seem to be not doing too well with the leaders of various student organizations as they dubbed the move as anti-student and playing with the exploitive motives of the university officials. AISF leader Abhinav said, "Indifferent attitude of the university and the college officials towards the development of the college is reflected in the fact that the college failed to make the list of select colleges of the state as centre of excellence in the first phase, despite being one of the oldest and premier colleges. The university has played truant with the merits of student in preparing the list for PG admissions," he alleged.The principal of the college, however, said that considering the list might have some discrepancy it already stands cancelled.