MAPUSA: To reach out to the student community, members of the North Goa District Congress Committee accompanied by the members of National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress party, visited St Xavier’s College, Mapusa on Thursday. The visit was part of the Congress initiative called Noman Tuka Vidhyarthano which aims at becoming the voice of the students.
The party workers interacted with the student community to know the issues faced by them. The visit received a good response from the students who freely interacted with the Congress workers and shared their problems. Besides St Xavier’s College, the Congress party members also visited DMC College at Assagao. The Congress workers were headed by North Goa District Congress President Vijay Bhike.
Bhike informed the students that through this initiative the Congress party wanted to address the problems affecting the student community. He also assured that their problems would not only be taken up with the authorities concerned but also solved. The students complained to the Congress workers that the bus conductors hassle them since they pay half ticket.
Later, Bhike told the media persons that the Congress workers would be visiting more colleges to learn about the issues faced by students in the education system and thereafter would meet the Vice-Chancellor of Goa University and discuss the problems taluka-wise.
When asked what were the problems the St Xavier’s College students said they were facing, NSUI State President Ahraz Mulla said, “At St Xavier’s College we have not noticed many problems. But in the government colleges like the Government Polytechnic Panjim, there are a number of issues that the student community is facing. The students are facing an issue with the choice based credit system (CBCS) introduced in 2017-18 and many students have not yet received their first and second semester results. They have also told us that they don’t have a representative in the Goa University but want this process to be held democratically.”
