Protesters vow to keep Tezpur University shut until formal steps taken to remove V-C

Key Highlights

• The high-level team was allowed to leave post midnight following a written assurance on a blank paper by the Department of Higher Education’s Joint Secretary Saumya Gupta, who was a part of the delegation.
• The hand-written assurance, accessed by PTI, said that V-C Singh will not administer the central varsity till a “strict and time-bound inquiry against him” is completed.
• Students, teachers and non-teaching staffers, under the aegis of a joint platform Tezpur University United Forum (TUUF), have been protesting against the beleaguered V-C since mid-September over alleged corruption and other irregularities committed by him, and demanded his removal along with an inquiry against his actions.
• The TUUF expressed disappointment that even after 79 consecutive days of peaceful protests, no concrete resolution or actionable assurance had been provided to remove the V-C.
• “The students, faculty and non-teaching staffers are going for a complete non-compliance and non-cooperation until a concrete agreement is officially received.