Hill students suffer as Madhyamik examinations rescheduled

9:36 AM

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West Bengal

Vidhyarthi Morcha Demands Heaters and Stoves in Madhyamik Centers

The Gorkha Janmukti Vidhyarthi Morcha has reminded the District Administration and the Bengal government that it is still very cold in Darjeeling, and since Bengal government pushed forward the date of Madhyamik examinations without considering the discomfort that hill students have to face, they should provide for room heaters and stoves (angeti) in those schools that are in the higher altitude.

The WBSSC had assured hill students that proper warming equipments aill be provided to all the schools that require heating, however nothing has been done till date and the examinations begin from February 1st.

Vidhyarthi Morcha Demands Heaters and Stoves in Madhyamik Centers

We hope that our politicians will kindly highlight this act of discrimination against our hill students.



Via TheDC

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Govt College Darjeeling merit list shows more outsiders than local applicants

5:19 PM

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Hill

Darjeeling, June 21: The Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha (GJVM) has said it will stop classes indefinitely at the Darjeeling Government College from tomorrow as the institution had admitted more students from outside the Darjeeling hills for first-year honours courses.

 Govt College Darjeeling

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's students' arm today planted a flag at the college gate. Redham Thapa, the student's representative at the college and a member of the Vidyarthi Morcha, said: "Tomorrow, we will not allow the gates to be opened."

He said: "The first merit lists for honours courses were out on June 19 but we hardly found any student from the Darjeeling hills on the lists. The college was set up for the local population and if they fail to get admission, where will they go?"

Vidyarthi Morcha leaders said the outfit had no problem with online admission, tried in the college, which started classes in 1948, for the first time.

The first lists for honours course students in various streams were released on Friday.

"We had made a representation to the teacher in-charge on Friday and had asked him to solve the issue within 24 hours. Since no development has taken place after 24 hours, we have decided to indefinitely close the college," Thapa said.

Kunga Hesay Zimba, another student representative of the college, said: "In previous years, around 80 per cent of the seats were filled by local students. We want the same norm to be followed."

There is no written rule that the government college has to admit a certain percentage of students from the local area.

Thapa said: "Just to cite an example, in the 61 seats for geography honours, only 13 are from the hills have been listed for admission. Similarly, for microbiology honours, only three of the sixteen seats have gone to local people. In botany and zoology, only three and seven local residents have got admission, respectively. The total number of seats in botany and zoology are 32 and 33 seats, respectively."

A senior college official agreed that this time more students from outside had taken admission as the process was online.

There are 624 honours seats and 1,023 pass course seats in Darjeeling Government College.

Prajwal Lama, officer in charge of the college, said: "As of now, I have not received any instruction." Lama said that on Friday a higher education department official in Calcutta had directed him to send a list of local and non-local candidates.

Nupur Das, the secretary of the undergraduate council at North Bengal University, said in the evening: "We have not received any information from the college so far. We will surely check it out tomorrow."

Source:Telegraph

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Darjeeling history to be taught in schools and colleges demands GJVM

11:39 AM

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History

The Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha (GJVM) has come up with a demand stating students of the Darjeeling hills should get to read and garner knowledge about the history of their area. This comes after the University Grants Commission recently announced that colleges and universities of the northeast should accord special status to the history of that region and teach it at the educational institutions.

Darjeeling Eden Sanitarium

Addressing a press conference here in the afternoon, GJVM vice-president Deep Thapa said colleges in the Darjeeling hills should also emulate the UGC’s decision and include the history of the region in their syllabus.

He said, “Darjeeling, Sikkim and the Dooars are not included in the Northeast Council, but students of these regions should be imparted knowledge of the history of their land.”

Thapa added the GJVM has already written to the UGC and the vice-chancellor of North Bengal University on the matter to impress upon them the seriousness in which the demand is being envisaged.

Source: EOI

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