PANCHANAN UNIVERSITY

Sit-in to get a university at Khalisamari

Demanding reconsideration of the state government's decision over setting up of the proposed Panchanan Barma University, the members and supporters of Rastriya Panchanan Barma Smarak Samiti (National Panchanan Barma Memorial Committee) staged a daylong sit-in today on the bank of Sagardighi, in front of the District Magistrate's office. They demanded the university to be set up at Khalisamari, the sacred birthplace of Roy Sahib Thakur Panchanan Barma, a legendary social reformer of the region. The agitators also submitted a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister through the District Magistrate.

 

The president of the Rastriya Panchanan Barma Smarak Samiti, Girindra Nath Barman said that the present Chief Minister promised of the proposed university at Khalisamari during her address at a meeting at Mathabhanga prior to the last Assembly election. But now, ignoring the sentiment of the local people she is going to set up the university in Cooch Behar town. The organising committee of the university already collected a huge volume of land as donations from local people for building up of the university at Khalisamari. He said that they believe the CM would reconsider the state government's decision and would issue order to establish it at Khalisamari. To draw her attention they organised the sit-in today, Barman said.