Manipur: Police Initiates Lathi Charge Against Protesting PG Students

IMPHAL: A group of Dhanamanjuri University (DMU) students were lathi-charged by police on Monday to put an end to their attempt to seize control of the university's administrative building.

Once the students attempted to forcibly shut down the administrative block, the police resorted to charging at them.

At about noon, a large group of postgraduate students from colleges linked with the DMU marched towards the administrative building and demanded that the classification of PG and UG professors be resolved as soon as possible in order to protect the students' academic prospects.

Placards bearing messages such as "Resolve the teacher classification issue," "Let students study," "DMU authority, manage the academic calendar properly," "Save the students' careers," etc. were on display by the students.

As they approached the administrative block, they chanted additional phrases calling for the resignation of the "unworthy" vice chancellor.

The students attempted to padlock the administration building, claiming that the DMU authority refused to respond to their prior demand for the academic semester to start on schedule.

The on-duty police officers present attempted to stop the rowdy students from seizing control of the administration building and ordered them to disperse.

The students reacted angrily to this and apparently attempted to physically shut down the administrative block. The cops used canes on the students in an effort to prevent them from closing down the administration building.

However, a police source claimed that nobody was hurt during the incident.

N. Rikesh, vice president of the DMU Post Graduate Students' Union, revealed to reporters that the group had opposed the university's inaction in addressing the teacher categorization issue.

In the colleges connected to the university, he claimed that there is a lack of clarity in the classification of instructors who teach post-graduate (PG) and undergraduate (UG) classes.

According to him, this problem has delayed the start of the current school year's academic session, and the pupils are in danger of losing their academic standing.

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