New Delhi: With the DTU management failing
to hammer out a solution to students' protest, Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit today personally intervened in the matter and
asked them to withdraw their agitation.
Dikshit asked the students to withdraw their protest over
demands of removal of its Vice-chancellor P B Sharma and
revoking the decision to make the DTU a state University.
The DTU was earlier known as Delhi College of
Engineering, a constituent of Delhi University.
The CM's direction at a meeting here with the agitators
prompted the students to take a final call on the matter
tomorrow.
"We have called a meeting of all students and even the
parents to know whether they want to continue with the
agitation or not. We are in the final year and have been
placed. So it's their call on the matter, but we are ready to
lead them," said a student leader, who also participated in
the meeting with Dikshit.
Asked about the details of the meeting, he said that the
Delhi Government was not in a "mood" to meet their main
demands.
"Dikshit said her government will look into their demands
other than the removal of the VC and changing the DTU status.
She, however, asked us to give some concrete proofs against
the VC," the student leader said.
Dikshit had earlier asked the DTU management to hammer
out a solution within two days. Even the Board of Management
meeting of the varsity had failed to find a concrete solution
to the current problem prevailing in the institute for nearly
a fortnight.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 23:36