NLU Odisha Withdraws Statement One Day After Calling Students Protest On Academic Policies & Infrastructure “Illegal”

A day after issuing a press statement addressing the continuing protest of students over arbitrary academic policies and lack of basic infrastructure, the administration of the National Law University Odisha, Cuttack has today published a new press release withdrawing the previous one. The students had started an indefinite protest against the university authorities opposing alleged introduction of arbitrary academic policies for evaluation of tutorial classes, lack of basic infrastructure and collective apathy of administration towards academic and mental issues of students. According to the said release, after the Registrar, Chief Warden and Controller of Examination met the students and agreed to take two interim steps of suspending evaluation till the next Academic Council meeting and also partially opening the Academic Block, the students had agreed to stop the protest. The university had stated that the students remained dismissive of all the mental and physical health measures taken by the administration by appointing qualified full-time doctor, nurses and counsellor and they also did not acknowledge the positive steps taken by the university for betterment of the infrastructure, despite huge financial expenditures.