Now, 3 Maharani College girls climb up water tank to protest, later come down

Jaipur: After three male students climbed up a water tank on the campus of University of Rajasthan (RU) as a novel means of protest, three female students of Maharani College took the same protest route and climbed up a water tank on the college campus on Monday. The girls however climbed down from the water tank around 7:30pm on Monday, said the principal of Maharani College, Prof Mukta Agarwal.
Prof Agarwal said that the three girls have demanded to meet chief minister Ashok Gehlot and the administration is trying to take an appointment on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the principal had said that despite assurance to the students and even after forwarding their demands to the RU VC, three students chose to climb up the water tank. They did so in presence of a police force deployed on the campus to maintain law and order during the ongoing admission process and graduate entrance examination.
Two of the female students who climbed up the water tank have already graduated from the college and the third one is yet to get the results but has already appeared for third year examinations from the college, said the teaching and administrative staff of Maharani College. The five demands raised by the students are free education for all girls, 100% admission before the student union elections, setting up an open gym in college, opening a branch of a bank with an ATM on the college campus and setting up an e-mitra online facility on the campus.
College principal Prof Mukta Aggarwal said she was informed by some students on Sunday n ight that they would stage a protest. She met the students on Monday morning and received a memorandum of their demands.
“I forwarded the students’ memorandum to the VC and assured them that we would consider their demands. I also told them that these things take time. Yet three of the girls climbed atop the water tank,” said Prof Aggarwal.
On Saturday, three post-graduate students of RU had climbed up a water tank on the varsity campus with similar demands. tnn