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Principal denies students' charge

Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE: P.V. Ramachandran, Principal of the Government Medical College here, has refuted reports that programmes to mark the golden jubilee of the college have been eating into the academic hours of students.

A group of students gheraoed him a few days ago in protest against the move to stage the arts festival of the Calicut University Students' Union on the medical college campus.

Dr. Ramachandran said here on Saturday that the protest was politically motivated. The students' union was led by Independent, an apolitical organisation, and the university students' union by the Students' Federation of India.

The reason given by the medical students for opposing the staging of the arts festival is that it will lead to loss of academic days. They had already lost a few days because of the golden jubilee celebrations.

The Principal said the jubilee celebrations had not led to any such loss. Programmes such as the exhibition "Embryo" were manned mostly by nursing and pharmacy students and not by medical students.

He said medical college teachers were actively involved in the celebrations and they would conduct a medical camp at Nilambur.

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