Students stop Adilabad Collector’s vehicle, demand for Tribal University

Adilabad: Mild tension prevailed when police resorted to lathi-charge against tribal students who allegedly stopped the official vehicle of District Collector Sikta Patnaik while they were staging a dharna demanding a Tribal University in Adilabad on Monday. Tudumdeba, a tribal rights organization, extended solidarity to the one-day protest. Students and leaders belonging to various organisations […]

Adilabad: Mild tension prevailed when police resorted to lathi-charge against tribal students who allegedly stopped the official vehicle of District Collector Sikta Patnaik while they were staging a dharna demanding a Tribal University in Adilabad on Monday.

Tudumdeba, a tribal rights organization, extended solidarity to the one-day protest. Students and leaders belonging to various organisations including tribal students organisations were proceeding to the Collectorate to take part in the protest. Some of them stopped the vehicle in which Sikta Patnaik was travelling to her office. They reportedly prevented her from leaving the spot for about 30 minutes.

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Upon receiving information about this, police rushed to the spot and scattered the agitating students by lathi-charging. They arrested eight students for their role in the incident. Other students staged a sit-in in front of the Collectorate and police station seeking release of the students. The protesters demanded creation of a university in Adilabad for tribals.

Godem Nagesh, district president of Tudum Debba lamented that students of erstwhile Adilabad were forced to migrate to neighbouring districts because of lack of a university. He requested the State government to take steps for establishing a varsity and to provide higher education to the tribal students. He recalled that the then UPA government sanctioned a tribal university for Adilabad in 2008.

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