Hundreds of students of Sailabala Women's College here took out a rally in the city today before submitting a memorandum to the district administration demanding University status to their hundred-year-old college.
The students have been agitating since last week in protest against the denial of university status to their college. The State government last Friday announced to convert Bhubaneswar-based Ramadevi College into Mahila University of the State and all the women colleges of the State would be affiliated to it.
Enraged over the State government's decision to ignore the demand of the Sailabala College that is pending since long, the students have launched an indefinite stir and on Monday hit the streets by staging a road blockade in front of their college. Traffic on busy Mission Road and Chandi Chhaka was paralysed when students burnt tyres on roads.
Sailabala Women's College is the premier women's college of the State and is named after Utkal Gaurav Madhusudan Das' foster daughter Sailabala. Established in 1913 on a sprawling 50 acres of land that once belonged to Madhu Babu, the College now has a student strength of more than 3000.
