Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 24 2009:
Research scholars and M Phil students of the Manipur University yesterday staged a sit-in protest at the campus of the university demanding clearance of their pending monthly scholarships.
Over 400 research scholars and 150 M Phil students took part in the protest.
They not only demanding clearance of their scholarship amounts pending since August this year but also demanded rectification to the alleged malpractices in the university.
Research scholars and M Phil students are not getting their monthly scholarships of Rs 5000 and Rs 3000 per month respectively since August last while some of them are not getting from February this year, according to the protestors.
Alleging many malpractices in the administration in the University, the protesting students also demanded rectification of it at the earliest.
The protest started at about 10 am and went on till at about 4 pm.
Many slogans demanding immediate clearance of scholarship displayed at the site.