Lohardaga students write exams in verandas, college labs

LOHARDAGA: About 600 students of BS College, Lohardaga's sole constituent college, on Wednesday wrote their Part I undergraduate examination papers in verandas, laboratories, common rooms and even on staircases.
The college is facing a huge shortage of proper classrooms. Nearly 1,400 students of principal Hindi, history, Sanskrit, Urdu and economics (hons) appeared for MIL (Hindi).Ranchi University has scheduled the examination for this subject on August 8 and 31 to manage the large number of candidates.
Of the 1,400 examinees, about 600 had to write their papers sitting on benches across the verandas in the boys' and girls' common rooms, botany and zoology labs and even on the staircases where.
Undertrial prisoner Vikas Oraon was among those appearing for the examination and special arrangements were made in the teachers' room for him. He has been in Gumla jail for three months as an accused in an extortion case. A group of policemen brought him to the college for the exam. He is a regular student of this institution and resident of Lohardaga's Kuru block.