New Delhi Apr 22 PTI The Krantikari Yuva Sangathan KYS on Friday held a protest demonstration outside Delhi Universitys St Stephens College calling for the immediate scrapping of the interview requirement for admission While the Delhi University has asked St Stephens College to grant admissions for general category students based on the Common Universities Entrance Test scores and hold interviews only for the reserved seats on an 8515 ratio the college has maintained that it will continue to hold interviews for all candidates The college reserves 50 per cent of its seats for Christian students The KYS members also burnt an effigy of the college principal after he allegedly refused to meet them This is an elitist tradition as the only reason to conduct interviews is to select the most elite students for admission into the college The criterion has been persistently used to deny the students from deprived backgrounds from gaining entry into the college and thereby maintain the elitism of granting admission and perpetuating the privilege of select clans and families KYS alleged in a statement This is outrightly pathetic and stands in contrast to the historic struggles such as that of Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule against ending privileges in education it added The student outfit also demanded that an evening batch be started in the college PTI SLB CJ CJ

New Delhi Feb 20 PTI The Krantikari Yuva Sangathan KYS a student outfit said it will hold a rally on Monday to protest against what it called the hooliganism of the administration of Delhi Universitys School of Open Learning SOL In a statement the KYS said that its protest march will start from SOL North Campus Building to Gate No 4 of the office of Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi The student group claimed that a delegation of students was beaten up by the SOL administration when they held a demonstration regarding the issues affecting students including non-commencement of offline classes late distribution of study materials and the mode of exams However instead of addressing the issues the SOL administration beat up a delegation of students who went into SOL premises to submit a memorandum The students were confined abused and beaten up at the behest of SOL officiating principal it alleged KYS would be organising a protest rallytomorrow at 11 am it added The KYS pointed out that despite DU reopening from February 17 SOL has not started offline classes Moreover the situation is compounded for the students as SOL is distributing incomplete study materials to only 1st-year students till March while the exams are to begin in March itself the KYS said It also raised the issue of the mode of the upcoming examination The students are anxious as to the mode of examination for the fourth and sixth semesters as SOL is to conduct physical mode examinations in May This is highly problematic as these batches of students would be taking examinations in the physical mode for the first time without any grounding in this mode the student body noted The SOL officiating principal had filed a police complaint against KYS while the student outfit also gave a complaint to the police PTI VA SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Feb 18 PTI The DUs School of Open Learning SOL Prinicpal has filed a police complaint alleging some agitating students entered the building and misbehaved with female security guards and manhandled the staff police on Friday said The Krantikari Yuva Sangathan KYS on the other hand accused authorities of attacking students and fracturing one of the students arm A senior police officer said they received complaints from both the parties and further investigation is underway Uma Shankar Pandey the Principal alleged that some students held a demonstration under the banner of KYS at 11 am in front of SOL building at main gate number 1He said the students blocked the road causing disturbance to the entire traffic as well as students support services of SOL During the agitation some agitators entered the SOL building and misbehaved with female security guards and manhandled with the staff of SOL When they were stopped by the police personnel they threatened the SOL staff and provoked other agitators to enter the premises of SOL building to disturb the public-dealing he alleged in the complaint The complaint said the agitators climbed the top of the main gate and shouted slogans against the college authoritySince the agitators were not peaceful in their demonstration stern action may please be taken against these agitators so that in future public dealing may not be hampered the complaint addedThe KYS in its turn alleged that two protesters were attacked by the SOL administrationA delegation of two protestors went inside the SOL building on Friday to submit their memorandum to the SOL administration regarding various issues being faced by the students The SOL administration confined them in the building by locking the gates it saidA group of about 20 SOL officials and the administrations henchmen confined the students abused them and violently attacked the students in the office of the acting principal Uma Shankar Pandey in his presence as well as that of a police constable who accompanied the delegation it said The group alleged that one of the protesters broke his arm and had to be treated at Hindu Rao hospital Abha Dev Habib the Secretary of Democratic Teachers Front DTF condemned the attack on students and said that the peaceful protests and demands of students cannot be handled in this mannerThe fact that students were violently attacked in the principals office with the direct involvement of SOL officials is extremely unfortunate DTF condemns this criminal attack on students in no uncertain termsPeaceful protests and demands of students cannot be handled in this manner said Habib and demanded an enquiry into the matter PTI NIT SLB NIT VN VN