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Students clash on MGKV campus
COMMOTION PREVAILED on the campus of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV) for half an hour on Tuesday when two groups of students clashed with each other over some petty matter. Nearly half a dozen students sustained minor injuries in the clash. Heavy police force was deployed on the campus later. Five students were detained by the police in this connection. Vice- chancellor Prof SS Kushwaha inspected the new campus .
COMMOTION PREVAILED on the campus of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV) for half an hour on Tuesday when two groups of students clashed with each other over some petty matter. Nearly half a dozen students sustained minor injuries in the clash.
Heavy police force was deployed on the campus later. Five students were detained by the police in this connection. Vice- chancellor Prof SS Kushwaha inspected the new campus. However, academic activities were not affected and classes went on smoothly.
Chief proctor of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV), Prof Mahesh Vikram Singh said show cause notices were being served to two students found involved in the clash and efforts were on to identify other trouble makers.
According to information, the clash took place between some day scholars and hostellers in the afternoon. A few members of both groups sustained injuries.
Soon, cops and varsity’s security personnel rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control by chasing away the miscreants.
Dharna at Jantar Mantar
OVER 100 STUDENTS of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) staged a dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Tuesday. They demanded immediate restoration of defunct students union of the university.
The students, who left Varanasi on Monday evening, started their 48-hour dharna from 10 am in the national capital on Tuesday. They also demanded disciplinary action against the officials responsible for resorting to lathicharge on students who were demanding restoration of the BHU students union on September 19.
The students would meet President of India and Visitor of the BHU Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh tomorrow. “We want restoration of the BHU students with immediate effect,” Awadhesh Dixit, who was spearheading the dharna in New Delhi, told HT on the phone. He asked “Why the BHU was deprived of the students union?”
Deaf and dumb students block road in city
a Large number of deaf and dumb students of Vimal Chandra Ghosh Mook Badhir Vidhyalaya on Tuesday staged a chakka-jam on the Gurubagh-Rathyatra road.
They were protesting against rise in number of road accidents.
The local residents, accompanying these deaf and dumb students, said the students very often met with accidents due to fast driving by auto-rickshaws on the road leading to school.
As these these students could not listen the horns of these auto-rickshaws, the auto-drivers often hit them, alleged Gopal Yadav, demanding an immediate ban on the rash driving by auto-rickshaws. Besides, there were two more schools, Bhartiya Shishu Mandir and Gopal Public School, on the same road, they said.
Later, police reached the spot and pacified the agitated students and residents. A picket duty was deployed at Tel Wala Dharmashala to check entry of auto-rickshaws. Police also assured the agitators that they would deploy picket duty outside Ramkrishna Vidya Mandir to check fast driving by auto-rickshaws.
