KHS students from Odisha demand job assurance

Agra, Sep 3 (PTI) Students from Odisha at the state-runKendriya Hindi Sansathan (KHS) here have been protestingagainst the poor hostel and mess facilities and have demandedassurance of jobs after the completion of their course. The students, who have been protesting from Wednesday,claimed that the authorities at the institute have notresponded to their demands and allegedly forced them to sitout in the rain yesterday. KHS is run by Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal under theHRD Ministry. KHS Director Nand Kishore Pandey said the 70 protestingstudents from Odisha had enrolled for ‘Praveen’ course forteaching Hindi. "They want an assurance that they would get jobs aftercompleting the course. We can only provide quality educationand whether they get jobs or not is for the Odisha governmentto decide," Pandey said. Registrar Chandra Kant Tripathi said, "A students’cooperative runs the mess and the day to day decisions aretaken by the committee. The institute gives adequate supportand medical facilities are also provided on a daily basis." On their demand for job assurance, Tripathi said, "Wehave explained to them that the course is recognised by NCTE,the national regulatory body." "For jobs, state governments have their own parametersand it is up to the Odisha government to consider their demandfor jobs. We can only help by way of providing good teaching,"he said. PTI CORR AAR RTAAR