Education Minister of Bengal advises JU students to avoid the Gherao varsity authority.
Key sentence:
- Students should try other ways to address the unresolved problems and speak to us, he said.
- Students in engineering advised the authorities to resolve the problem and also accepted the severity of the situation.
- For the academic problems which need to be solved by ignoring health risks due to the COVID-19 disease.
On Saturday, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee calls on a section of students from Jadavpur University to avoid the direction of senior Gheraoist varsity officials to push for their claims.
Chatterjee about 12hrs of gherao:
Chatterjee, when questioned last week by some engineering students about a 12-hour gherao from the university’s vice-chancellor, Pro-VC as well as the registrar, stated students should not resort to certain forms of violence that trigger their teacher’s physical pressure.
Several times in the past, I have urged a section of JU students to abandon their teachers’ Gherao course, which would be akin to physical torture. Students should try other ways to address the unresolved problems and speak to us, he said.
Chatterjee figured out that because of the gherao, Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das, Pro-VC Chiranjib Bhattacharya as well as Registrar Pradip Kumar Ghosh had fallen ill, that had to be prevented.
Chatterjee about Abhik:
Abhik, a previous office of the Faculty of Engineering Students as well as Technology Union, added, “We understand that officials could not announce the results on time because of the pandemic condition and the on-campus activities could not begin.”
“But even after 11 months, there had been problems with the declaration of results, which affected students professionally.” Students in engineering advised the authorities to resolve the problem and also accepted the severity of the situation, he added.
He said that the students neither gheraoed the teachers but arranged sit-ins to ask the authorities to discuss the problem with them in order to find a solution that is time-bound.
“For the academic problems which need to be solved by ignoring health risks due to the COVID-19 disease, students also live on campus for long hours,” he added. When approached, Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das said that he was busy attending a conference.
The teachers will not be pressurized Goutam Maity:
Goutam Maity, senior faculty member as well as spokesperson of it’s All Bengal University Teachers’ Association (ABUTA) JU branch, filleted the students for “physically preventing” senior varsity officials from quitting the meeting place and said that the agitating students would not compel the teachers to ratify their requirements in this way.
