Two of the 20 members of a students' union of Jadavpur University who are on a hunger strike, over the past four days, in protest against the new admission procedure, have been hospitalised today, varsity authorities said.
The authorities made a fresh appeal to them to withdraw the stir and called an emergency executive council meeting today.
Registrar Chiranjib Bhattacharya said two students have been admitted to hospital and the varsity was concerned about the health condition of others.
Accompanying the Registrar, Pro-VC Pradip Ghosh told the students, "I request all of you to withdraw the fast. We have already convened an emergency executive council meet to discuss the admission issue. The VC (Suranjan Das) and Chancellor (Keshari Nath Tripathi) have already requested you to withdraw the fast. Please do not endanger your lives."
Turning down their pleas, general secretary of Arts Faculty Students' Union Debraj Debnath said, "There is no question of withdrawing our fast till the EC scraps the marks only criteria for admission process and brings back the admission process."
Around 20 members of the AFSU started a hunger strike on July 6, two days after the university announced that it would admit undergraduate students in English, comparative literature, Bengali, history, political science and philosophy on the basis of board marks, reversing its earlier decision to hold entrance tests