Thrown out of campus, 81 DSNLU students protest

As 81 students of Damodaram Sanjeevaiah National Law University (DSNLU) did not clear their backlog papers, the University authorities sent them out of the campus at Sabbavaram here on Friday.

VISAKHAPATNAM: As 81 students of Damodaram Sanjeevaiah National Law University (DSNLU) did not clear their backlog papers, the University authorities sent them out of the campus at Sabbavaram here on Friday. All of them, including many from Bihar, Rajasthan and Odisha squatted on the road, and staged a protest at the University Gate and raised slogans for justice.

Vice-Chancellor Prof V Kesava Rao, along with the staff, tried to pacify and send them home but the students refused to move and continued their protest even in rain.

According to the students, there are two categories of exams which every student has to pass _ even semester (May to July) and the odd semester (November/ December). Up to last February, all the students were allowed four attempts to clear backlogs of each semester. But this time around, after the even semester backlog exam on July  20, 2018, the university authorities forcibly vacated the students who wanted to stay at the university hostels till odd semester backlog examinations in November /December.

‘The university authorities told us just two days earlier about the new system that for the odd semester backlog examinations, we have only three attempts instead of four. Though we requested the university, they mercilessly sent us out of the campus on Friday evening. Now we are demanding justice,” said one third-year BL student. According to him, about half of them are women.

‘Students informed earlier’

Contacted, Prof Kesava Rao said: ‘We have informed the students about the new system which is totally based on the rules and regulations of the university and the directives of the High Court Chief Justice who is the Chancellor of the university. These students, who are now staging a dharna, have many backlogs... That is the main problem. As far as the university is concerned, we have provided gave shelter for more than a week  on humanitarian grounds, they all have to go out of the campus by July 15.”

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