RD university students launch stir for second campus

Bhubaneswar | Sunday | 18th March, 2018

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Vehicular traffic was affected for an hour.The protesters said the state government had created three universities on May 30, 2015, including RD Women's University. On the abolition of posts of the autonomous college, he said the students should understand that the college had been upgraded to a university. "The two other universities have already got land for their second campuses but we are yet to get anything. Bhubaneswar: Students of Rama Devi (RD) Women's University on Saturday staged a dharna in front of the university's main gate to press for land for a second campus and a rollback of the government's decision to abolish teaching posts of Rama Devi Autonomous College The students also blocked the Janpath (the road between Vani Vihar and Shishu Bhavan square) near the university for more than an hour. "The government can bring the college within the jurisdiction of the university without abolishing it," she added..