Odisha: No college students’ union election for sixth yr in a row
3 min readBy Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: There will likely be no college students union election this yr too. The widespread tutorial calendar for the educational session of 2023-24 for universities and faculties, launched by the Higher Education division on Tuesday, has no point out of the election that was stopped in 2018. Usually, the elections had been held previous to Durga Puja holidays. However, this tutorial session, the holidays have been notified from October 21 to twenty-eight. But earlier than that, no date has been put aside for the scholars union elections. The mid-semester examinations for each UG and PG have been scheduled from the final week of October. The whole variety of instructing days is 180.
The division has directed all vice-chancellors of state public universities and principals of presidency/autonomous/non-government aided and unaided faculties to observe the widespread tutorial calendar for the session strictly. While no scholar councils have been elected within the final six years, increased training establishments have been nominating scholar representatives to numerous our bodies the place it’s required.
Members of Biju Chhatra Janata Dal stated non-holding of the elections has been instrumental in sustaining peace on campuses.
However, AVBP – the youth wing of BJP – and Congress’ state unit of NSUI alleges authorities’s vested curiosity in it. President of the state NSUI Yasir Nawaz stated the elections had been stopped in 2018 by the then Higher Education Minister Arun Sahoo on the pretext it led to violence on the campus.
“But now the academic standard of colleges and universities has deteriorated and there are no student leaders to protest it,” Yasir stated. Both AVBP and NSUI have threatened to hit the streets if the elections are cancelled this yr.
BHUBANESWAR: There will likely be no college students union election this yr too. The widespread tutorial calendar for the educational session of 2023-24 for universities and faculties, launched by the Higher Education division on Tuesday, has no point out of the election that was stopped in 2018. Usually, the elections had been held previous to Durga Puja holidays. However, this tutorial session, the holidays have been notified from October 21 to twenty-eight. But earlier than that, no date has been put aside for the scholars union elections. The mid-semester examinations for each UG and PG have been scheduled from the final week of October. The whole variety of instructing days is 180.
The division has directed all vice-chancellors of state public universities and principals of presidency/autonomous/non-government aided and unaided faculties to observe the widespread tutorial calendar for the session strictly. While no scholar councils have been elected within the final six years, increased training establishments have been nominating scholar representatives to numerous our bodies the place it’s required.
Members of Biju Chhatra Janata Dal stated non-holding of the elections has been instrumental in sustaining peace on campuses.
However, AVBP – the youth wing of BJP – and Congress’ state unit of NSUI alleges authorities’s vested curiosity in it. President of the state NSUI Yasir Nawaz stated the elections had been stopped in 2018 by the then Higher Education Minister Arun Sahoo on the pretext it led to violence on the campus.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“But now the academic standard of colleges and universities has deteriorated and there are no student leaders to protest it,” Yasir stated. Both AVBP and NSUI have threatened to hit the streets if the elections are cancelled this yr.
