Campus ruckus over admission

Updated on: Friday, June 12, 2009

Kolkata: Trouble broke out at the Bhawanipore Gujarati Education Society on Thursday with hundreds of students and their guardians taking to the streets, demanding transparency in admission to the college. The aspiring students alleged that the authorities have been admitting students on payment of hefty donations and ignoring other students.

About 100 candidates and guardians blocked Elgin Road from 11.30 am to 12.25 pm. “I’ve been standing in the queue for the last seven days. Yet, we are not being allowed to submit our forms,” said a student.

Some students have allegedly received provisional admission on paying anything between Rs 5,000 and Rs 20,000.

From 2008, the admission process at the college has been mired in controversy. A CU team was dissatisfied with the infrastructure and asked the college to cut down its seats to 300. For more than a decade, the college has been admitting around 2,000 students. The college authorities, however, challenged the decision in Calcutta High Court and was allowed to carry on with teaching students already admitted.

“We have to accommodate all the students who have come to us for admission,” said Mangal Das Singhi, chairman of the college trustee board.

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