University college to reopen on Oct. 15

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 12. The University College, Thiruvananthapuram, will reopen on October 15. The post-graduate classes will begin that day and the degree classes on October 17.

A decision to this effect was taken today at a meeting convened here by the Minister for Education, Mr. Nalakath Soopy.

According to a consensus arrived at in the meeting, admission to the college will be restricted and students will be required to produce identity cards, till normality returns to the campus.

A police out-post will be put up at the VJT Hall near the college and the principal given police protection for some more time. A raid will be conducted in the college to ensure that there is no stockpile of weapons of any kind.

The principal will take over the open air auditorium, now held by the college union; it will be provided another room for its activities. No student organisation will be allowed to carry out its activities from within the campus.

Trade unions and other organisations will be denied entry. Nobody will be allowed inside the campus after 7 p.m.

All the remaining issues will be sorted out by the principal in consultation with the college council, organisations of teachers and students and the Parent-Teacher Association.

The college was closed on September 27, following a law and order problem involving students belonging to the SFI and the police.

Besides representatives of the Parent-Teacher Association, various organisations of students and teaching and non-teaching staff, Mr. V.S. Sivakumar, MP, the Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Mr. K. Mohandas, the Director of Collegiate Education, Mr. C.K. Viswanathan, the District Collector, Mr. K.R. Jyothilal, the City Police Commissioner, Mr. Rajan Singh, and Prof. S. Varghese, principal of the college, attended the meeting.

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