Bhubaneswar: Students of Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), along
with their parents and guardians, plan to stage a demonstration
against the university authorities at its new campus located at Kurki
near Harirajpur in Puri district on Sunday.
This is the second mass demonstration by students against the
allegedly unilateral, vindictive, autocratic, discriminatory and
punitive actions of the XUB authorities against the 2016-18 batch of
Human Resource Management (HRM), Rural Management (RM) and
Sustainability Management (SM) students.
After their two-day demonstration on June 5, 6, the authorities
organised a joint meeting on June 8 to discuss the issues. There was
unanimity regarding reissuing of conduct certificates with
satisfactory remarks. However, due to time constraints the meeting was
to resume on June 9 to discuss other demands. However, it was called
off by the Vice Chancellor through an e-mail intimation on the
midnight of June 8, a press release informed.
The students’ demands include MBA degree certificate using logos,
withdrawal of unsatisfactory remarks in conduct certificate and
issuing of all the certificates with the content and template of
2015-17 batch.
The agitating students and guardians also demanded that the
authorities conduct the convocation and reward eligible students with
gold medals. They sought refund of ‘arbitrary’ deduction of caution
money. The authorities should refund hostel fees for forceful
evacuation, the demonstrators said.
