Patna, (Bihar Times): Of late Sundays have become the working days in many colleges of Bihar, especially those belonging to Patna University and Magadh University in the state capital.
Like the last few Sundays the one which passed on July 27 also witnessed a lot of activities. None of the striking non-teaching employees objected to the thousands of youngsters who swarmed into these campuses on that day. No they were not the bona fide students of these colleges, but in fact the candidates appearing in the Staff Selection Commission examination.
Not only that many of the university employees facilitated their entry and worked as invigilators for the examination as they earned some fast buck. Their behaviour was very dissimilar to the other working days when they would chase away anyone daring to enter the campus. That was not enough. On July 6 a non-political students’ organization had to cancel its seminar on social justice, to be organized in a room in Science College, because the employees did not allow them to hold it––all the gates were locked by them. All this notwithstanding the fact that the organizers duly took the permission from the college authorities much before the start of the strike in June.
The strike has a detrimental impact on thousands of students, who were keen to take admission in colleges outside the state or got selected in premier institutes or secured a job. It has become virtually impossible to get mark-sheets, migration certificates and other documents.
Like on July 27 there were activities on some other Sundays too as the examination of the State Bank of India, Forest Services, CDA, and other central agencies took place in several colleges of the state capital.
While the students suffer the state government and the employees have converted the campuses into the battlefields for their own gain.
