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THINGS ARE are in a bit of a `mess' on the Vellayani campus of the Kerala Agricultural University and on the nine other campuses of the University. For the past one month, the mess in the University's hostels across the State have not been functioning, forcing hundreds of students to find alternative sources for their daily meals. The mess-workers are on strike demanding that they be employed on a permanent basis. On the Vellayani campus, about 170 students in the three hostels, including 120 girl students, now depend on food delivered from the lone canteen on the KAU campus. The male students are taking turns to reach food in the night to the ladies hostel. "Delivering 100 parcels to the ladies hostel takes ages. "Two batches are having their final-year examinations in December. We can't spend hours ferrying food here and there. The KAU has done nothing to help us out of this situation. We are planning a major agitation from Thursday," R. Arun, a third-year student of the Agriculture College, Vellayani, told The Hindu . The Vice-Chancellor of KAU, K.V. Peter, however, said the solution to this problem was beyond the university. "These mess workers are appointed by the students themselves. There are 117 of them; some are aged above 60 and one, 82 years old. The university cannot make them permanent as it did not appoint them. They asked us to make them casual labourers. We already have a long list of such labourers in the university. Moreover, they are demanding seniority in the list. The matter is now before the High Court. The university's executive committee and the Government are also seized of the matter. Today, it was decided that the University would reach food this evening to the ladies hostel on the Vellanikkara campus," he said. The Dean of the College at Vellayani has been authorised to take all necessary steps to help the students in this matter, he added. The PTA of the College at Vellayani has pointed out that as the College is a residential institution, the KAU authorities are duty-bound to provide food to the students in the hostels. The PTA has also sought the urgent intervention of the Government in this matter.
By G. Mahadevan
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