Students’ protest continues in historic Khallikote College

BERHAMPUR: The Khallikote Autonomous College students have intensified their protest as their indefinite agitation has entered the sixth day. The students of the historic Institution formed a human chain in Berhampur and continued to boycott their classes, locked up their college gates and gheraoed the principal. The students launched their indefinite agitation on Friday to press for six demands. The students decided to form a human chain from the main gate of the college up to the gate of the garage of Orissa State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC). It may be noted that the main demand of these students is handing over the 17 acres of land adjacent to the College which is now under the Orissa State Road Transport Corporation to accommodate the requisite infrastructure for the more than a century old Institution to be declared as a Unitary University. This land was earlier leased out to a private firm to open up a mega shopping mall. But due to opposition of students and citizens of the city, the Chief Minister had to intervene to cancel the lease last year. It was decided to alienate the land to the institution for its expansion.

Source: The Hindu

The Sambad on the agitation of Khallikote College students: http://www.orissasambad.com/news_article.php?id=12832