Homoeopathic students cry for justice, authorities keep mum

--action against two lectures demanded

MLA Pratap Sarangi, Second from left, with students

BHUBANESWAR: The students of the State run Dr Abhin Chandra Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital demanded high-level impartial inquiry into the false allegation against them by two lectures of the college. They also demanded that the Government to take necessary action against the lectures Dr Rabi Narayan Mishra and Dr Jadumani Raut, who are threatening them especially torturing the girl students physically and mentally.

Addressing the Press here on Saturday, MLA Pratap Sarangi promised the students to press the demands of the students before the Ministers and Chief Minister and top officials of the concerned department. He has requested the State Government to take necessary action in the matter. The Chief Minister and the Home Secretary have promised to solve their problems immediately, Sarangi said.

The students have urged the State Human Rights Commission, State Commission for Women (SCW), DG Police, Ministers, Secretaries, Commissionerate Police and at the last moment they met Chief Minister to solve their problems. “We are not able to understand the silence of the higher authorities even after we have provided sufficient proof against above matter to them. So we are requesting the State Government to provide justice,” said a BHMS student Biswa. 

 

It may be noted the students of the college have been demanding for the appointment of the teachers in their college. They have only 11 teachers including a reader in the place of 48 teachers including five professors, said a third year BHMS student Sarada Prasanna Samantray of the college. Now they don’t have any professors, he added.

It is our genuine demand, but the teachers and the college administration want to suppress our demand by threatening us, said another student. Some of the raged students ransacked the college office on July 23 and from that day the college authorities are mentally harassing us, he added.

On August 30, chairperson of the SCW Jyoti Panigrahi visited the college campus here and had started inquiry into the matter following the complaint lodged at the SCW by the girl students of the college against their teachers for allegedly harassing them mentally and assaulting a girl student Shruti Biswas.