Movement of students for fee waiver ;Sonowal assures to look into the matter
July 17: Students' movement in front of the Chief Minister,
the movement of students to demand fee waiver. The Chief Minister understood
the realization of the movement that started in the state to demand the waiver
of poor students.
On Wednesday noon, the representatives of different colleges
of Barak Valley of Students' struggle Committee started protesting during the
Chief Minister's meeting in front of the District Collector's office in
Silchar. Suddenly, the protests caused police and administration to face some
problems. Students are demanding that the poor students who are backed up at
the graduate level should be given free admission. During the protests,
officers who were in charge of the Chief Minister came running there. The members
of the present struggle committee told them that they are continuing the
movement for the last one month. They also said that student struggle committee
meeting Dilip Kumar Pal, Assam Minister Parimal Shukla Devi, Karimganj's
Legislative Officer Kamalaksh Dixi, and others have expressed their demands.
After hearing the news of the Chief Minister's Silchar, members of the
Students' Struggle Committee rushed to the District Collector's office to meet
him. The officials spoke on the message to the Chief Minister after seeing
their remarks and the unarmed attitude of the student movement.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister did not respond first, but
later he agreed to meet. Two Advisers of Student Struggle Committee Proghbal
Dev and Prashant Bhattacharya presented their demands to the Chief Minister.
They upheld the memorandum in the hands of the Chief Minister and said that the
poor students will be forced to leave the educational system due to the
withdrawal of the circular of the Assam government. They also said that
students of rich families who are backed up can study. But poor students will
be deprived. The representatives of the Students' Struggle Committee also told
the Chief Minister that punishment for the students meant sending away the poor
children's education camps.
