Protest over JDW College building transfer

Patna | Saturday | 21st July, 2018

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PATNA: The J D Women’s College students on Friday staged protest over the Pataliputra University’s (PPU) decision to utilize the new arts block building as PG centre of the university. College students raised slogans against the college principal incharge and PPU while opposing the building transfer to the university.Third year Hindi (Hons) student Roma said their protest would continue till the university and college gave in writing that the building would be used only for the arts department students of the college. We have three buildings on the campus, one is for academic and science block, the second is PG block while the last one is for vocational courses. It is not our fault that our college became a constituent college of PPU,” said Bharti, a second year Economics (Hons) student.According to sources, former college principal Prof Shashi Singh resigned on Wednesday after the university pressurised her to transfer the new building for PPU PG centre. “Out of the 7,000 students, around 2,000 are in arts faculty but there is no separate block for us..