Art-Architecture students
on streets
Sandesh Prabhudesai
12 July 2007
Students of two government professional colleges - Art and
Architecture - are on the streets, demanding upgradation of
infrastructure and filling of vacant posts of faculty members.
Goa College of Art students temporarily withdrew their strike
today after chief minister Digambar Kamat assured to inquire
into the state of affairs in the college.
They had yesterday gheraoed principal Mahesh Vengurlekar
while they marched towards chief minister's Altinho residence
today evening.
Mr Vengurlekar has been holding the principal's post with
a mere bachelor's degree. The recruitment rules were changed
to accommodate him through GPSC selection process, allege
the students.
The Art College is short of staff and students are taught
by inviting lecture-basis lecturers rather than filling the
posts, they added.
On the other hand, the architecture college students are
protesting against not appointing a full-fledged principal
as well as staff members. Due to non-compliance of several
norms, the Council of Architecture, a national body, stopped
first year admissions from this academic year.
Though the state government has now challenged the Council
order in the high court terming it illegal, students have
continued striking to provide infrastructural facilities,
including enough number of qualified faculty.
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