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Nannaya varsity students stage dharna

Staff Reporter

Rajahmundry: For the first time after the establishment of Adikavi Nannaya University, the students are on roads demanding full-fledged hostel facility, scholarships, faculty and other issues. They staged dharna in front of Sub-Collector’s office and showed placards highlighting their demands.

PDSU district secretary P. Ramakrishna led the dharna and submitted a memorandum to the Sub-Collector M. Jitendra on Monday. He said that the district collector had issued a notice to arrange full-fledged hostel in 2006, but the University authorities, particularly the Vice-Chancellor is adamant in arranging hostel with minimum facilities till now. He alleged that there are 10 to 15 students in a single room in the present un-finished private hostel . “Some of the students were hospitalised after eating the food in mess during last one month”-he complained to the Sub-Collector. The PDSU leaders said that the University authorities have failed to fill the vacant posts in the name of ‘merit’ and trying to run the show on contract lecturers.

They alleged that there are about 40 permanent posts to be filled by the University and it is being run by skeleton staff.

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