Students lock DSW office in protest against hostel warden

Tribune News Service

Patiala, November 27

Allegations of corruption against a hostel warden today led to a ruckus on the Punjabi University campus after which students locked Dean Student Welfare Dr Tara Singh’s office. Later, other university officials, including Registrar Manjit Singh Nijjar intervened to bring the situation under control.

Students of the university, who met the Dean Student Welfare on the campus, said, they had met the university Vice-Chancellor (VC) BS Ghuman and demanded to get the hostel warden removed with immediate effect. They said the warden had been intervening into the matters of the hostel mess committee and ignored a number of requests raised by the students.

Yadwinder Singh Yadu, one of the research scholars among the protestors, said the hostel warden had been ordering raw material of food from a particular shop in Panchkula for personal benefits. “We demanded the university to change the hostel warden but the officials have failed to do so. They had offered to find a solution to the matter and hold a meeting with us today but nothing came of it after which we held a protest outside the office of DSW,” he said.

The students later locked the DSW office and raised slogans against the university officials. Later, Registrar Dr Manjit Singh Nijjar intervened and also met the students.

When contacted, DSW Tara Singh said deliberations were still going on. 

Students said they would lock the entry gates of the campus if the university failed to register their demands and does not change the hostel warden as demanded.