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Students, others `detain' two teachers

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR: Protesting against the controversial order from the Higher Education Department, members of citizens' groups, lawyers and students detained two senior college teachers who came to join as professor in G. M. Autonomous College, Sambalpur, for nearly four hours on Tuesday.

The order, issued on March 7, stated that three readers would be joining as professors at G.M. Autonomous College but would be teaching at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. In the morning, when principal in-charge of Rama Devi Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, Snehaprabha Das and Suman Mohanty, a reader from Ravenshaw University, reached G. M. Autonomous College, over 100 students, lawyers and members of citizens' groups opposed the move. The third teacher who was transferred from DAV College, Koraput, did not turn up. As tension prevailed, Secretary, Higher Education Department, Ashok Kumar Tripathy called up the authorities and informed that the order stood cancelled, sources said. Some 54 teacher posts against the strength of 119 were lying vacant in the college.

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