KOCHI: The PG students of the strike-hit Maharaja’s College are in dire straits with the MG University scheduling to start the last semester PG exam from coming Friday. Some 600 PG students belonging to 18 departments do not know where to look for rescue.
“Since all colleges under the MG University have to follow the university calendar, Maharaja’s too has to conduct exams from Friday. But there is no conducive atmosphere for that. More importantly the internal exams to be conducted prior to this have not taken place. The lab works in several subjects and record correction too have not been held. The strikers and the authorities are playing with the future of the students,” said K.V. Kishore, unit president of KSU.
Meanwhile, the principal in charge of the college Elsamma Arackal has called a meeting of the students’ representatives and the Parent-Teacher Association on Wednesday to find ways to solve the issue. The meeting of the student bodies’ representatives will be held from 10.30 am while that of PTA from 1.30 pm.
Meanwhile, 10 teachers who refused to accept relieving orders on being transferred for their anti-autonomy stand, on Tuesday accepted the orders. They said that they won’t sign a declaration as demanded by the higher education department expressing their willingness to undertake whatever academic and administrative job given to them under the autonomy status granted to Maharaja’s College and hence were accepting the transfers.
They said that the government has not been able to explain what other job will be given to them under autonomy which is not usually covered by the study departments of the universities.
The AKGCT that is spearheading the agitation said that though the courts had refused to stay the transfers, the organization would continue steps to legally counter the autonomy declaration as well as the transfer.
