Educationists and eminent professors in the state feel there is an urgent need to stop criminalisation of student politics, which has led to a situation where teachers are being assaulted by students.
For the last few years, incidents of brutal assault on teachers, professors and principals of schools and colleges have been reported from various parts of the state.
Recently, the principal and two teachers of a college in north Dinajpur were brutally beaten up allegedly by student activists, after a local Trinamool Congress leader's wife was caught cheating during exam.
The incident came close on heels of the attack on the principal of a college in North 24 Parganas, where SFI activists allegedly attacked the principal of the college with iron rods and assaulted him brutally. The allegation was denied by SFI, student's wing of CPI(M).
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Eminent educationists and even political leaders feel criminalisation of students politics need to be stopped.
"It is the the criminalisation of student politics that is leading to such a situation. Earlier also there have been student politics but now that have graduated into measures where teachers and principals are being beaten and are forced to promote a student who has failed," vice chancellor of Jadavpur University Siddhartha Dutta told PTI.
"There is an urgent need to stop criminalisation of politics. Political parties for their own interest use students. This should stop as it destroys their future," he said.
Recommendations of Lyndyog Commission regarding students elections should be immediately implemented in educational institutions, Sanyal demanded.
The importance of students politics can be gauged from the fact that both former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and incumbent Mamata Banerjee started off as student leaders.