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Coimbatore
Three injured, six swoon as students siege Collectorate
February 24, 2016
All they wanted was to meet the District Collector and tell their grievance. They had come in a large number because their grievances too were numerous. CBM College has always been in the news for lack of amenities, teachers, and all that is required to provide a student an ideal studying atmosphere. But this is what they got. Just because they came in a crowd they were denied an audience with the Collector. When they forced their way in, what they got in return is for all to see. Three injured, six left unconscious, many losing their belongings. Where do they go from here ?
At least three students were injured and another six lost consciousness in a tussle between 100-odd students of CBM College of Arts and Science and police. The latter was preventing the students from barging into the Collectorate to protest against lack of basic amenities and facilities in the college.
The students, who were appealing the government to intervene or take over the college in Kovaipudur, came to the Collectorate to submit a memorandum to the Collector, police said.
As police refused to allow all of them inside and erected barricades, the students became agitated and pushed the barricades and tried to surge inside the office of Collector Archana Patnaik, they said.
In the melee, three boys were injured and six students, including four girls, swooned, due to heat, police said.
The students in their memorandum, a copy of which was handed over to the press, said that for more than a year they were carrying out agitation, dharna inside the campus. Two students had recently attempted to jump down from the college building seeking basic facilities like toilets and drinking water.
The lack of maintenance of available toilets resulted in skin diseases for many girl students and their appeal had fallen on deaf ears of the management.
They said that majority of the students were wards of low income group parents and daily wage earners and belonging to BC, MBC, SC and ST and minority communities.
The students sought immediate intervention of the Collector to set things right, considering the future of more than 350 students.
