Despite DM’s order, HNLU insists students to vacate hostel rooms
| Date :25-Nov-2020 |
Staff Reporter :
Raipur,
On Nov 18, the DM issued an order clarifying that HNLU will not be used as COVID Centre n Students requested the University to take its notice back, but it refused to do so and asked students to clear hostels
A fresh order issued by the Hall of Residence and Mess Committee (HRMC), Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Nava Raipur on November 23, has created a chaos among the students. The Committee has asked the students for shifting their belongings from their respective hostel rooms, on the ground the hostel would be handed over to the State Administration, if required, and also to undertake cleaning of fungus infected rooms due to prolonged lockdown for the last eight months. It is worthwhile to mention, the District Administration had already revoked its October 21 order asking the HNLU administration to vacate the hostel rooms. But the HNLU administration has been insisting its students, who are in their respective hometowns and are attending online classes, to make necessary arrangements to vacate the hostel rooms. This has brewed resentment among the students.
The HNLU Committee has also taken several other decisions, such as, waiver of the semester hostel room rent and may do so till it is reopened and students occupy the same. A majority of students have complied with the notice and the cleaning and painting work will be starting shortly in the hostels, said the Registrar in the order. As requested, the timeline had been extended twice and now stands on November 30, 2020 and there will be not further extension, said the Registrar.
The Registrar writes in the order that those who find it difficult to clear personally or through clearing agents can send the keys to administration (Registrar’s Office) to pack and safe keep the same through DTDC courier services and co-ordinated by University staff. It may be recalled that HNLU had released a notice on October 21 asking students to vacate the hostels. The reason provided was that State Government had acquired the hostels under the National Disaster Management Act.
Courier usually charges Rs 5,000-6,000. Most of the students who have cleared rooms so far, either travelled themselves or engaged courier service. Students unwilling to let their certificates, identity documents, books, valuables etc be in University custody indefinitely. On November 18, the District Magistrate issued an order clarifying that HNLU would not be used as a COVID Centre. Students requested the University to take its notice back.
On November 23, the University refused to do so and asked students to clear hostels. It must also be noted that students have had their University exams from November 19 to 26, and could not have possibly travelled during this time either. While some students have already travelled to college in larger public interest of vacating hostels to convert them to covid Care Centres, the remaining students are deeply conflicted between traveling to HNLU, and exposing their family members to the virus, or risk losing their documents and other personal items. When contacted, HNLU Registrar Deepak Shrivastav could not pick up the call.