Geyzing college students stage sit-in, demand early completion of campus

KUSH HANG LEEWANG

GEYZING: The students of Geyzing government Degree College today did not attended their classes and staged a sit-in protest on the college premises over delay in the construction of permanent college campus. 

The members of the students’ representative council (SRC) and the students held placards demanding that college construction work be completed at the earliest. The students have further demanded that the college construction work be carried out according to the detailed project report (DPR) prepared earlier, adding that changes in DPR would not be accepted.

The students maintained that delay being made in the college construction is as same as ‘denying’ educational rights to the students.

Accusing the Education department of failing to fulfil the promise of giving a fully established college campus by 2020, the students of the college expressed that their sufferings owing to the lack of educational infrastructures were out of comprehension of the concerned department even when several petitions was submitted.

It may be mentioned here that government college at Geyzing was startedfrom a rented building at Kyongsa, near Geyzing in 2011. The college was shifted at a new college construction site in 2019 where the college is still functional at the infrastructures constructed as hostel for girl and boy students.

The infrastructure lacks rooms required to accommodate the growing number of students as the main institutional block is yet to be established.

SRC president Sanjay Hang Subba stated that the former Education minister R.B. Subba had asserted that the construction of the college would be completed by 2020 but the assurance never came to fruition. He further added that the dream of students of having a proper higher educational infrastructure in Geyzing was never fulfilled making the students of west district suffer in many aspects.

He maintained that the voice raised by students demanding the early completion of the college construction project was democratic and necessitated. "Why should we not raise our voice when it is about our education and our future? We protested because we are being denied our educational rights,” he said.

Another student of the college stated that “it was indeed a shame to witness that the construction of infrastructure for higher educational lying in limbo for a decade.” She expressed that the students had a right to protest as they are facing a problems due to dearth of educational infrastructures.