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Vijayawada
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VIJAYAWADA, JULY 14. Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) has asserted that there is no question of rescinding the Executive Committee's decision to transfer all final year students of Sarada PG College to other colleges in the wake of the recent murder of the girl student, Sri Lakshmi, in a classroom of the college. A delegation of students from the college met the Vice-Chancellor, L. Venugopal Reddy, at the university on Tuesday pleading for reconsideration of the move, but the latter expressed helplessness on the ground that a decision once approved by the committee could not be overruled by him. In all, 19 students, including four girls, would be affected by the committee's decision to transfer them to other colleges. The students had put up a determined opposition to the move on the ground that it was "unfair'' to punish them for an incident in which they had no role. They argued that transferring them to other colleges at the fag-end of their course would drastically affect their academic performance, besides carrying the stigma of the Sri Lakshmi incident to the new colleges. The students claimed that similar incidents had taken place in other universities and colleges too, but only Sarada College was being targeted. "The whole society is watching us. Unless we take a firm decision, it is not possible to stem the rot that has set in,'' Prof. Venugopal Reddy said on Wednesday. He said that besides the Sri Lakshmi incident, the fact that the Sarada College had not got approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the course had prompted the university to go ahead with the decision. According to Prof.Reddy, as per the AICTE norms, the college was supposed to have a minimum 1.25 acres of land for imparting the course. But, Sarada College, he said, did not have the necessary space and infrastructure. Despite the AICTE giving sufficient time for the college to shift to an alternative site, the latter did not do so. And the girl student's murder had forced the varsity to take a tough stance on the issue, he added.
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