Kadapa, September 19: Alleging negligence by policymakers in allocating funds for the development of the new universities in the state, the All-India Students Federation has called for ‘universities bandh’ in the state on September 24.
Disclosing this to mediapersons here today, AISF state general secretary Lenin Babu said the government had started new universities in the state to encourage higher education but forgot to sufficiently fund them.
“Without funds and faculty, the new universities are just empty shells. The present attitude of the government is posing severe discomfiture to the students whose future is at stake,” he said.
He also demanded immediate fee reimbursement, halt to political intervention in university administration, payment of Rs 1,500 as mess charges to student, filling up of the vacant teaching and non-teaching posts.
Lenin Babu criticised chief minister K Rosaiah for showing empty treasury as the reason for cuts in welfare schemes.
–Agencies