This Article is From Feb 21, 2012

Principal, staff of private engineering college locked by students for 6 hours

Howrah (West Bengal): Students of a private engineering institute locked the woman Principal and seven other members of the teaching faculty at Chatterjeehat in Howrah district for about six hours on Monday night, protesting against the lack of facilities.

The students, comprising girls and boys, laid a siege outside the chamber of Principal Lahari Ghosh and seven of her colleagues, demanding that the Dalalpukur Engineering Institute immediately provide better drinking water facilities and other basic amenities to the students.

Institute sources said the blockade was lifted when the authorities promised to sit with the students soon to solve all the outstanding issues.

Ghosh said she was ailing and told the students of her physical condition and the blockade was lifted a little before 9 pm, less than six hours after the demonstration began.

Police said its team went to the spot but waited outside the premises and did not interfere as the two sides sorted the issue.

To a report that some Trinamool Congress student supporters were involved in the incident, the Howrah district unit of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad claimed it had nothing to do with the incident.
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