Shifting from Shalimar to Wadura Campus

Scholars protest SKUAST decision

Srinagar: Accusing SKUAST (Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agriculture, Science and Technology) authorities of playing with their careers, the Post Graduate students Thursday staged a protest in Press Enclave Srinagar and said that they are being forced to shift to Wadora campus in Sopore town that according to them lack the researching facilities.

We appeared in the Ph.D interview and qualified for the admissions in the doctoral degree in SKUAST at Shalimar campus but the authorities planned to shatter and destroy our career by sending us to a place called Wadora campus in Sopore Tehsil which being an horticultural area has no facilities to assist in our research, a female scholar told CNS adding that Wadoora Campus lack modern and well equipped laboratories, library, round the clock internet services, teaching staff, hostel facilities and so on.

They said that from frequent power cuts to periodic supply of water, lesser number of teaching staff in each division, there are limitless faults which dont provide an environment for such higher degree. The campus doesnt offer an adequate intake capacity for such large number of students. The university is ruining the agricultural prospectus of our state in the long run. Irony is that despite of stay on the order dated 25.10.2014 vide number 668 (Est) of 2014 on shifting of faculties from Shalimar campus to Wadora, the students are being mentally pressurized to get themselves registered at Wadora campus and continue the degree there. Even in the year 2007 university council took a decision to establish a full-fledged faculty of horticulture at Wadora campus and faculty of forestry at Benihama. Though the faculty of forestry was shifted to Benihama, but faculty of horticulture was shifted to Shalimar without any approval from government of J & K and university council thereby reversing their own orders.

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