SRINAGAR, JULY 09: Students of BBA 3rd semester from Government Degree College Magam staged protest against shortage of teaching staff in the college.
Number of students of the college assembled in the college lawn and carried out a protest rally along the Srinagar-Gulmarag highway.
The students raised slogans against state government and college administration for “putting carrier of students on stake”.
Students said that there is no faculty member available in college for the BBA students since last one month putting students in deep distress. “We have apprised principal many times but to no avail,” the agitating students said.
The protesters chanted slogans against the local administration, for not taking step to provide teachers and basic facilities to their collage.
The protesters said that there were more than 700 students in the collage while most of the posts of the teachers had been vacant for the last five years. They said that the collage was also short of basic facilities and students had to sit on the ground owing to shortage of chairs.
They said that shortage of facilities and teachers at the college caused problems for the students, who came from remote areas of Magam. (PTK)