In the wake of surge in the COVID cases in Tripura, the students’ body of the opposition CPI-M party – Student Federation of India (SFI) on Thursday accused the private run educational institutions of violating the COVID guidelines and demanded the government to keep close eyes on the institutions to ensure health safety of the students who are studying in those institutions.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday the SFI state secretary Sandipan Deb alleged, “Several private run educational institutions in the state have been found to be violating the norms and guidelines of COVID 19 which has thrown students’ health at risk. We demand the government to keep close eyes on them.”
Meanwhile, the SFI demanded the government to keep open the hostels across the state amid this COVID pandemic.
“We urge the government to keep the hostels open maintaining all the precautions and make arrangements of COVID tests inside the hostels itself for the students hailing from remotest part of the state and abroad, so that in this pandemic period the students are not required to move to their villages,” Deb said.
He said, “We also demand the higher education department to stop conducting advance examinations in the name of pandemic situations, because untimely examinations will put a heavy burden on the students. In addition to this, we demand the government to conduct examinations only after completion of syllabus for the students and if not then the government may consult with the students and mull over reducing the syllabus for examinations.”
The SFI however wanted the government to waive all kinds of fees for the students during this COVID pandemic. Deb said, “As we have failed to meet the Director or the in-charge of the higher education department regarding our demands, we shall launch deputation drives from January 21 till January 27 next, where we shall place our demands with the DMs, SDMs, District and sub-divisional education officers,” he said.
