Tension has been prevailing at several colleges in the State as Plus Two students have been staging protest against the decision not to allow these students who fail to secure a minimum of 33 per cent marks in first year annual examination.
Opposing the Council of Higher Secondary Education’s (CHSE) decision, Plus II first year students of Samanta Chandra Sekhar (Autonomous) College Puri, Khordha and Jatni colleges and Biju Patnaik College and Debray College in Bhubaneswar staged demonstrations and road blockades by burning tyres on Sunday and Monday. The agitators alleged that courses of almost every subject are yet to be completed and the CHSE’s decision would affect their performances in the examination. They demanded immediate rollback of the decision. Police officials reached some agitation spots and pacified the irate students.
