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Students hold protest
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The students of P R Government (Autonomous) College along with members of Alumni Association staged a protest on the college premises on Wednesday, opposing the attempt of civic authorities to encroach their college premises in order to provide shops to hawkers in the city along the compound wall. Assembled in large numbers, they raised slogans against the decision.
Kakinada: The students of P R Government (Autonomous) College along with members of Alumni Association staged a protest on the college premises on Wednesday, opposing the attempt of civic authorities to encroach their college premises in order to provide shops to hawkers in the city along the compound wall. Assembled in large numbers, they raised slogans against the decision.
They said that this move will pollute the college premises. Speaking on the occasion, the president of Alumni Association K Bhami Reddy and secretary Ravula Mutyala Rao said that the college, which was established 131 years ago by Pithapuram Rajas was later handed over to government in the year1952. They said that in 2006, in total 1,600 square yards of college property along the compound wall was taken under the pretext of road widening. No compensation was paid to the institution till now. Seven acres out of total 35 acres of land provided by Pithapuram Rajas for the college was encroached in the last several years, they said.
They expressed apprehensions about the repetition of such encroachgements once the commercial activities permitted along the college compound wall. The girl students who attended the protest said that out of total 2,250 strength of the college, the girls account for half the number. Besides this, the girls hostel is situated adjacent to compound wall, they said. The girl students appealed to the authorities not to spoil the environment in the vicinity o of the college by permitting the commercial activity on the premises.
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