Student-University clash on the cards

VADODARA, June 8: The stage is set for another showdown between the M S University administration and the students, with the latter stick...

VADODARA, June 8: The stage is set for another showdown between the M S University administration and the students, with the latter sticking to their demand of accommodating all applicants in the Faculty of Commerce, failing which an intensified agitation may be launched.

The university stuck to its guns on admitting students based on the merit list system, even as distribution of forms was again stopped by student union leaders on Tuesday. Former general secretary of the university student8217; union, Prakash Verma said, 8220;Our demand is to see to it that all eligible students should be admitted.8221;

Pro vice-chancellor Deepak Kumar De said, 8220;We have not yet decided to change our decision in the matter.8221; When asked how the university would handle the student pressure, De said that the forms would be distributed amidst police protection on Wednesday.

Senior professors also added that unlike the previous few days, the forms would be distributed only from one place and the timings would also be changed.

Meanwhile a senior police official, on conditions of anonymity said that the police would extend their co-operation but the university should try to sort it out out at their level.

Verma said the student union leaders had made it clear to the university that since the pass per cent was high this year hence there should be some arrangement so that all the students from the city could be accommodated.

He said, 8220;If there was no way by which all the students could be accommodated, the university must think of an alternative arrangement immediately.8221; He added that every year the students faced the same problem, and still the university could not come to a conclusion.

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A senior professor of the faculty also said, 8220;From the past three years the university is facing this problem of accommodating large numbers, it is high time that they come out with a solution.8221;

He added that though the university always took a firm stand about not exceeding a limit, it eventually capitulated. 8220;The faculty should not forget last years experience,8221; he said.