Police disperse students agitating outside Pune varsity V-C’s office

Students were demanding pending wages and provision for work on Saturday and Sunday as done till the end of the 2019 academic year

More than 100 protesting students of the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) attached to the Earn and Learn Scheme, were dispersed by the police from outside the vice-chancellor’s office on Saturday morning.

The students met Uday Samant (blue shirt), state technical and higher education minister, to discuss problems in the scheme. (HT HOTO)

Some of the protesting students were physically removed by the Chatuhshrungi police among slogan shouting by the students who were demanding pending wages and provision for work on Saturday and Sunday as done till the end of the 2019 academic year.

The students claimed that with the University sticking to its holiday timetable, a fourth of their monthly income had shrunk.