Continuing their agitation, students of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) resorted to sweeping streets in the State capital on Friday.
With broomsticks in hands and slogans demanding “justice”, the students again, a day after they were found polishing shoes on roadside pressing for their demand to modify the educational qualification criteria for recruitment into key posts under the Odisha Forest Service (OFS).The students demanded that anyone holding a graduation degree in the Forestry courses be allowed to appear in examinations for several OFS posts like Forest Ranger, Assistant Conservator of Forest and Assistant Manager of Odisha Forest Development Corporation (OFDC). Graduation in the Forestry courses is a four-year programme. It includes subjects that make a graduate student from this field more eligible than students of other streams for the OFS posts, claimed students.The OUAT students have been on agitation for the last four days.
