| Complain about lack of infrastructure and manpower at student-run messes |
making a point:EFLU students stage a protest by having lunch outside their mess, in Hyderabad on Friday.
HYDERABAD: Browned off over the apathetic attitude of the administration, students of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) staged a full scale protest, boycotting classes and locking up the administration block here on Friday.
With the Central varsity introducing several courses this academic year, there has been tremendous pressure on the university's resources. Topping the list is the severe infrastructure shortage at its student-run messes, Basheer hostel mess and Mahlaqa Bai Chanda hostel mess.
Despite its capacity of 450 students, Basheer hostel mess is catering to 750 male students while the Mahlaqa Bai Chanda hostel mess is providing meals to 450 female students against its capacity of 300, Parshathy Nath, a member of student general body, said.
As a result, students are forced to stand in long queues for a meal. “Often, it takes two hours to finish a meal. This is affecting our classes,” a student said. With the university administration unmoved by their plight, the students protested as the in-charge Vice-Chancellor Mohammad Miyan too failed to turn up at a meeting convened.
Students had their lunch squatting on the pavements inside the varsity.
They also wanted subsidised cooking fuel and food supply costs in the messes. “The administration has time and again tried to absolve itself of all responsibilities regarding the messes, claiming that they are students' affair. Is it not the duty of a university to provide minimum infrastructure for its student messes?” Ms. Nath wondered.
Students also pointed to manpower shortage in running the messes.
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