Chandigarh : In continuation to the decision taken in the general body meeting, the PGI faculty association held protest in front of director’s office from 5.00 PM onwards. Around 100 faculty members assembled in front of director’s office and did a silent protest by way of holding placards. The Director PGI called the President and Secretary for the meeting. During the meeting, DPGI conveyed that this protest is uncalled for and the engineering department is doing their best to resolve all the issues.
The association representatives conveyed the message to the assembled faculty members. All faculty members and executive council unanimously rejected this proposal and decided to continue and intensify its agitation. Representatives of Association of Resident Doctors were also present during the protest. They expressed their complete solidarity with the faculty association. They stated that they also facing similar pathetic attitude of engineering department in their hostels and OPD, and offered to join the protest from tomorrow onwards.
All the assembled faculty members then did a silent march till Teacher’s flat and also showed the pathetic situation of faculty accommodation to the media persons present there.