PU Striking Employees Force PWC to Stop Taking Classes

Patna: July 11, 2008

Striking Patna University employees, who have succeeded in bringing the education to a grinding halt in the state capital for their own personal interests and agendas, on Friday, forced the Patna Women's College to shut down and staged a dharna at the college gate while chanting unflattering slogans against the university officials.

Patna Women's College, that had defied the call for bandh till today, was the target of the union leaders including its president Ramjatan Sinha who called the PWC principal Sister Doris DeSouza an autocrat and someone who had no sympathy for the cause of university officials.

Sinha also accused the college of financial irregularities though he failed to provide any evidence of it.

Union leader Ram Shankar Mehta said that with the strike now entering into its 16th day, the government or the university administration was yet to make a move to resolve the crisis.

"It was last year on July 18th that the government had promised to agree to our 11-point demands. Now with the passing of nearly an year, the government is yet to implement on even one point of the agreement," Mehta said.