Pvt engineering college Principal, staff locked for 6 hrs

Updated on: Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Students of a private engineering institute yesterday night locked the lady Principal and seven other members of teaching faculty at Chatterjeehat in Howrah district for about six hours protesting against lack of facilities.

The students, comprising girls and boys, laid a siege outside the chamber of Principal Lahari Ghosh and seven of her colleagues demanding Dalalpukur Enginnering Institute immediately provide better drinking water facilities and other basic amenities to the students.

Institute sources said the blockade was lifted when the authorities promised to sit with the students very soon to solve all the outstanding issues.

Ghosh said she was ailing and told the students of her physical condition and the blockade was lifted a little before 9 pm, less than six hours after the demonstration began.

Police said its team went to the spot but waited outside the premises and did not interfere as the two sides sorted the issue.

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