Girl students stage one-leg protest over lack of facilities
Kurnool: Forced to write vocational exam by sitting on the floor under tree on the college premises.
A few hundred girl students of the Kasireddy Venkata Reddy (KVR) Government junior college stood on one leg in protest in front of the college on the railway station road here after being forced to write the vocational exam by sitting on the floor under tree shade on the college premises.
The students had to write the exam under the tree shade as the degree college staff had locked up four rooms. The students, mostly from BC, SC, ST and minorities belonging to various places in the district, have been facing hardship due to closure of the hostel.
Contempt petition soon
AISF district secretary Ranganna, SFI district president Anand and secretary Raj Kumar, Visalandhra Mahasabha State secretary Karunakar, Kula Vivaksha Vyatireka Porata Samithi district secretary Anand Babu and All India Democratic Women’s Association leader Sujathamma, who expressed solidarity with the protesting students, said they contemplated filing a contempt petition in the High Court on the non-compliance of the court’s orders given on March 28, 2016.
The High Court treated the post cards addressed by the girl students to the Chief Justice of High Court in 2015 as public interest litigation and gave directions to the Principal Secretaries of Higher Education and Social Welfare, Regional Director of Higher Education, and District Collector Ch. Vijayamohan to provide classrooms, residential hostels, toilets and drinking water facilities to the junior college students.
The court also directed the officials to construct the junior college and hostel buildings and provide toilets, drinking water facilities and proper environment to students pursuing education in Government schools and colleges, said the students’ union leaders.
It also directed the Principal Secretary, Higher Education, to allot one acre to the Government junior college for girls in the KVR Government degree college premises, they added. The leaders distributed copies of the High Court orders to media personnel.
Source: The Hindu
