Hostel fiasco unfolds at RIMS, PG students peeved
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 07 2012:
After facing a series of scandalous problems such as loss of academic year resulting from commencing academic session in RIMS nursing college without permission of Manipur University, the controversies surrounding recruitment of teaching staff and Principal-in-charge of the nursing college, RIMS is staring at another controversy following attempts to take over Gents PG Hostel No 1, Old Block (South) for accommodating nursing students.
Though it has been many years since RIMS nursing college started making news, there is no hostel for its students.
As it is necessary to provide hostel facility to nursing students, RIMS authority was working to take over Gents PG Hostel No 1, Old Block (South) for accommodating nursing students.
Taking strong exception to the RIMS authority's circular to vacate the hostel, Post Graduate students of RIMS stayed away from their routine duty from 8.30 am to 1.30 pm today.
Talking to TSE, some PG students said that the authority should review their decision to take over Gents PG Hostel No 1, Old Block (South) otherwise the students would be constrained to launch intense agitation.
Most of the PG students of RIMS are from outside Manipur.
Many such students who could not be accommodated in the hostel are staying outside RIMS campus in rented rooms.
This is not a comfortable arrangement in view of the law and order situation of Manipur, the students said.
To force the PG students to vacate their hostel to make room for nursing students at a time when many of their colleagues are already enduring lots of inconveniences outside the institute's campus is something unacceptable.
Pointing out that many PG students have night duty, it is not advisable to force them to stay outside in rented rooms.
After all, the Gents PG Hostel No 1, Old Block (South) was built for PG students, they asserted.
Efforts to elicit the RIMS Director's comment regarding the notice served to PG students to vacate their hostel proved futile.