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`Disaffiliate Periyakulam college'

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, JUNE 23. A demonstration was staged here today, demanding action by the Madurai Kamaraj University against the self-financing college at Periyakulam that was involved in the question paper leak in April.

The agitation was organised by the Save Education Committee and members of several trade unions, who addressed the demonstrators, called for a fresh investigation into the leak. They urged the varsity to disaffiliate the college for at least three years and stop admissions from the current academic year.

The speakers said the show-cause notice issued to the Jeyaraj Chellathurai College was not enough and that another probe must be conducted. The demands also included that the action taken so far by the Vice-Chancellor, P.K. Ponnuswamy, against the college was not enough and an independent probe had to be initiated on the college where several undergraduate semester question papers were leaked.

The speakers, including G.C. Manoharan, zonal president, Madurai Kamaraj-Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Teachers' Association, raised a set of demands that concerned students. A demand was made to the Government to abolish `compulsory' donations in schools and colleges and to open sales centres of Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation in all districts.

The Save Education Committee insisted that the scholarship amount for students belonging to the Backward Classes and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes should be given in the beginning of the academic year itself and not at the end as was being done now. It also objected to the increase in fees in schools and colleges.

Mr. Manoharan presided over the demonstration and S. Vivekanandan, zonal secretary of the MUTA, was among those who spoke. S. Thiagarajan, treasurer, MUTA, proposed a vote of thanks.

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