Students demand restoration of union

BANARAS HINDU University students took out a cycle rally here on Tuesday to generate awareness among people about restoration of students union in the varsity.

BANARAS HINDU University students took out a cycle rally here on Tuesday to generate awareness among people about restoration of students union in the varsity.

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Former and present student leaders of BHU under the banner of Kshatra Kalyan Morcha, started their awareness campaign from the BHU main gate and visited various parts of the city to keep the common people abreast with the alleged “anti-students” and “anti-social” policies of the BHU administration.

The student leaders demanded immediate restoration of students union lying defunct in Asia’s largest residential university for the last 10 years. They also decried the recent two to four fold fee hike.

The students criticised the authorities at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in BHU where consultancy fee of Rs 200 is charged from the patients in the evening clinic.

The student leaders were carrying placards and posters carrying slogans such as ‘BHU Prashashan Murdabad’ ‘Fees Vridhi Vapas Lo’, ‘Kshatra Sangh Bahal Karo’ and ‘Marijo Ka Shoshan Band Karo’ etc. to register their protest against alleged dictatorial attitude of BHU administration.

Prominent among those who took out the rally included Bhuvaneshwar Dwivedi, Ajit Singh, Rajnish Singh and Yogesh Rai.

Environmental science centre: A Centre for Environmental Science and Technology would soon be established here in BHU.

Sources said that the most important issue of Monday’s Academic Council meeting was regarding setting up of a Centre for Environmental Science and Technology in BHU which was approved by the members.

At the initial stage, this centre would be attached to the Science faculty but later it would be converted into a separate centre. Under this centre, a biodiversity park would also be established.