Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University students on Tuesday (March 16) staged a protest against the proposed appointment of Nita Ambani, chairperson of the Reliance Foundation, as a visiting faculty on the campus.
Several students of BHU sat exterior the Vice Chancellor’s residence to mark their protest. They demanded that the University not be “privatised”.
The high officers of the University, together with the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, got here to the protest web site to placate the students.
In a bid to persuade the students, the dean stated that no such choice has been finalised but.
Following the commotion, VC Rakesh Bhatnagar got here out to debate the matter with the students.
According to the students, Bhatnagar assured them that Ambani is not going to be made a visiting professor.
Earlier, Ambani had reportedly acquired a proposal from the college to hitch as a visiting professor.
She was requested to be part of the college’s Centre for Women Development and Studies with a purpose to assist enhance the dwelling commonplace of ladies from the Purvanchal space of Uttar Pradesh.
The proposal was despatched to Ambani on March 12, based on media studies.
There has, nevertheless, been no official affirmation whether or not she is going to be part of or not.
