Mangalore, July 21: C.T. Ravi, the new Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister had to face protesters during his maiden visit to Mangalore after assuming the new office on Saturday, but the agitators turned out to be his former colleagues, the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
The protesters, who pitched tent outside the Deputy Commissioner's office, of submitted a memorandum to Mr. Ravi, who is also the Higher Education Minister demanding restoration of old admission norms for the third and fifth semester students in polytechnics.
In a memorandum submitted to the Minister, Chinmaya Rai, secetary of the ABVP Mangalore unit decried the change of admission norms for the polytechnics effected without any prior notice.
“The circular bringing in changes to the admission norms was issued only after the results of the examination were announced. According to the new norms students should not have a backlog of four subjects to gain entry to the third or fifth semester. The government should have made students aware of the new norms before they wrote the examination,” Mr. Rai said in the memorandum.
He urged the government to continue the carry over system and provide adequate infrastructure to the polytechnics
“The ABVP has been demanding the Government over the last few years to provide proper infrastructure to the polytechnics. Students do not even have access to laboratory. Some polytechnics do not even have their own buildings and teaching staff. This has left the students in a piquant situation,” Mr. Rai said.
Responding to the memorandum, Mr. Ravi said he would look into the issue and try to solve it as soon as possible.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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