Students of Government Medical College, Government Dental College, Government Nursing College and those pursuing paramedical courses are planning to form a human chain on 23rd September, so that immediate steps to build a campus wall for the medical college campus can be picked up.
Aaqif Naseem, general secretary of the Medical College Students’ Union, said on Tuesday that the event would be organized in the morning as per the COVID protocol. He claimed that the Public Works Department had stopped work on the compound wall after a section of local residents tried to obstruct it. He claimed that the college authorities had a High Court order in his favor to go ahead with the construction.
However, office-bearers of the Moozhikal-Medical College Pipeline Road Protection Committee claim that they were not opposed to the construction of the wall, but to the sealing and cutting of the road being used by hundreds of people every day for the past six decades. Were.
The Moozhikal-Medical College pipeline road, which had been used by the people of Kakkodi, Kuruvattur and Palath since the establishment of the institution in 1957, was now being blocked near the chemical examination laboratory. Many students took the route to reach the Medical College Campus School, Savio Higher Secondary School and St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri.
He claimed that the road being blocked was part of a proposed 12-metre-wide ring road, starting from Moozhikal, passing through Kalandithazam and reaching Kovur.
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