Education
DU students to ‘Occupy’ Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Demanding roll-back in metro fare hike, students of Delhi University (DU) are to picket the Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station on Thursday, a student group said on Wednesday.
Organised by the All India Students’ Association (AISA), a Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist affiliated group, “thousands of students” are expected to join the demonstration, which the group has termed “Occupy Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station”.
Students of the group have been canvassing in different colleges for the past few days asking students to join the mass protest.
“It was in January when Occupy Vishwavidyalaya Metro Strike campaign hit different colleges of DU, getting tremendous response with an unequivocal demand of immediate roll-back of Metro Fare hike and asking metro concessional passes for all students,” AISA said in a statement.
Many from Ramjas College Union, Satyawati College Union, Miranda House College Union, AIDSO, SFI, PACHHAS and various other groups, have promised to be part of the agitation.
–IANS
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Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.