Chandigarh : PGI faculty association held their second day of protest in front of director’s office from 5.00 PM onwards. The protest saw even more increased participation compared to yesterday. Around 100 faculty members assembled in front of director’s office and did a silent protest by way of holding placards. Today’s protest was joined by 50 representatives of Association of Resident Doctors and 25 representatives of Association of Basic Medical Scientists.
The Director PGI called the entire gathering for the meeting. The meeting was attended by all the members present there in addition to Director PGI, Dean PGI and other administrative staff. During the meeting, representatives from faculty association, ARD and ABMS expressed their resentment related to engineering department and they too demanded the resignation of Professor Incharge and SHE. DPGI expressed that although there are certain deficiencies, the engineering department have done good job. He also informed that they have issued verbal warning to the engineering department, however, he did not agree to the demand of taking any stern action against the non-performing employees of engineering department.
All the faculty members as well as the members of ARD and ABMS did not agree with these verbal assurances. They informed DPGI that similar verbal assurances since last many years and it’s time to take action. All the three associations decided to continue with their protest till their demands are met.