Thursday, March 24, 2011

Students' stir disrupts exams at AMU

Aligarh: All important activities in the Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU), including admissions and examinations, remained paralyzed on
Tuesday on account of the forced locking of the central offices by the
students' union a day earlier.

Vice Chancellor (VC) P.K. Abdul Azis constituted a committee to talk
to the students' union, which locked the administrative block and
registrar's office. But president of the union A.A. Farooqui rejected
the offer.

Talking to the sources Farooqui said, "The VC is joking. Instead of
agreeing to our one point demand to remove the proctor from his
present post because he has failed miserably... the vice chancellor is
only further compounding the issue."

Azis appealed to the students' union to unlock the administrative
block comprising the finance office, controller of examinations and
admissions office and all other administrative offices of the
university and the proctor's Office so that the inconvenience caused
to students and other stake holders could be avoided.

The VC held a review meeting of deans of faculties and principals of
colleges to take stock of the alarming situation.

The meeting appointed a committee of deans and principals, who are
members of the executive council, to interact with the office bearers
of the students' union and others. IANS

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