jennifer
01-08-2008, 07:30 AM
Kolkata, January 7
When West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, ex-officio rector of Visva-Bharati, visited the university on Monday, groups of students met him with a single plea: beef up security.
The lax security in the campus prevails despite a Rs 10 crore grant for the purpose by the Centre following the theft of Tagore’s Nobel medallion. And the university (http://www.addyoururl.org/index.php?search=university)authorities have not been able to spend the better part of its Rs 6.5 crore tranche.
Admitting that they had not been able to spend much of the money, Shamit Roy, Registrar of Visva-Bharati, said: “Getting money from the government is easier than spending it.” The security steps, had they been implemented, could have prevented Sunday’s tragedy, in which an outsider entered the girls’ hostel unchallenged and shot dead a student who had reportedly spurned his marriage proposal. On Monday, as the Trinamool Congress and the CPM’s Students Federation of India forced students to boycott classes, the political storm buried the fact that the university authorities have been sitting for over a year on key recommendations for better security made by a high-level committee appointed by the President of India on March 6, 2006...Read... (http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/VisvaBharati-failed-to-use-Central-funds-for-security/258864/)
When West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, ex-officio rector of Visva-Bharati, visited the university on Monday, groups of students met him with a single plea: beef up security.
The lax security in the campus prevails despite a Rs 10 crore grant for the purpose by the Centre following the theft of Tagore’s Nobel medallion. And the university (http://www.addyoururl.org/index.php?search=university)authorities have not been able to spend the better part of its Rs 6.5 crore tranche.
Admitting that they had not been able to spend much of the money, Shamit Roy, Registrar of Visva-Bharati, said: “Getting money from the government is easier than spending it.” The security steps, had they been implemented, could have prevented Sunday’s tragedy, in which an outsider entered the girls’ hostel unchallenged and shot dead a student who had reportedly spurned his marriage proposal. On Monday, as the Trinamool Congress and the CPM’s Students Federation of India forced students to boycott classes, the political storm buried the fact that the university authorities have been sitting for over a year on key recommendations for better security made by a high-level committee appointed by the President of India on March 6, 2006...Read... (http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/VisvaBharati-failed-to-use-Central-funds-for-security/258864/)