No student union elections in colleges due to recent violences

Updated on: Monday, March 04, 2013

Higher education department of West Bengal government announced that no student union elections in colleges will be held as it has been kept in abeyance following recent violence at Garden Reach.

Higher education council chairman Sugato Marjit said that college elections would not be allowed till there was a fresh government order.

Education minister Bratya Basu recently issued a circular stating the college polls would be kept on hold for six months after a police official was killed recently allegedly in connection with the issue at Garden Reach.

Marjit told reporters at the state secretariat here that if the term of any elected body expired within the period, then there were rules and regulations to make an interim arrangement without holding elections.

The rules and regulations varied across different universities of the state, Marjit said.

 

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