From our Correspondent
KOKRAJHAR, September 30: Former Minister and BPF MLA Pramila Rain Brahma on Wednesday slammed the government for alleged apathy towards the magement of Bineswar Brahma Engineering College, Kokrajhar. She visited the college today where the students have been on strike since the past two days.
The students of Bineswar Brahma Engineering College have been on hunger strike in the college premises demanding appointment of regular Principal, faculty, infrastructural development, laboratory and other facilities. The students, however, have temporarily withdrawn the strike.
MLA Brahma said the Engineering College, which was part of the clauses of BTC Accord, was being run with poor infrastructure and idequate faculties. She also said that there were lots of problems in the college that the students had been facing. Supporting the demand of the students, she urged the government to take immediate measures to solve the entire crisis in the college.
Over hundred students of the Bineswar Brahma Engineering College in Kokrajhar boycotted their classes and staged the hunger strike carrying placards and festoons against the authority and government.
Talking to media persons today, Biswa J. Kalita, general secretary of Bineswar Brahma Engineering College Students’ Union (BBECSU) said that the college lacked proper infrastructure and faculties. He said there was no laboratory for the technical course, besides lack of permanent faculty. The student said that they had written to the Director of Education on September 2 to solve the problems faced by the students, but the authority had allegedly turned a deaf ear. The students of the college said that the Assam Government had allegedly adopted a lackadaisical attitude towards the development of the BB Engineering College.
The demands of the students include appointment of permanent Principal and faculties, regular electricity, lab facilities and appropriate fees structure as per DTE (director of technical education) norms. The students also demanded that the college should be given status of full-fledged government college so that there was flow of sufficient funds to the college. The students warned that until and unless the government solved their problems, they would intensify their stir.