FUTA on positive govt. response

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After a meeting with Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa on Tuesday the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) said that there was a possibility that the ongoing countrywide university strike would be called off next week.

FUTA President Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri said that discussions with Minister Rajapaksa had been successful and that both parties had begun developing a framework to implement the proposals made by university teachers unions.

“There has been a great amount of progress and we are in the process of creating an agreement with the government. We have discussed the foundation of our plans and things are looking positive. There is a chance that we would be able to call off the university teachers strike soon,” Dewasiri said.

He said however that it was still too soon to tell if the strike would be called off next week and refused to comment on the details of the discussions saying that it could be detrimental to the positive turn taken during the recent negotiations. (Olindhi Jayasundere)

FUTA trade union action– past and present –III

August 21, 2012, 6:27 pm , The Island


By Nalin de Silva

I read with interest the article by Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda, a member of the Faculty of Arts Teachers’ Association of the University of Colombo on Education Policy and FUTA’s mandate published on 20th August 2012. I know that he is not referring to me but I must state that I have no objections to the agitation by FUTA for government policy changes regarding higher education or education in general or any other matter in general. My objections to the present demands by FUTA are on other grounds. FUTA is a stakeholder in any matter in general and especially of higher education and education. However, FUTA should realize that when it comes to government policy, increasing the salary of academics also being a government policy, there are other stakeholders as such and whether we like it or not there is only one decision maker. The government of the day, irrespective of whether it is controlled by the officials of the Ministry of Finance/Treasury and/or other such bodies, is the decision maker and nobody else local or foreign. It applies not only to education but to other areas including Tamil racism.

Once the people elect a government until it is defeated by democratic means/revolution the government decides on policy and not any other body, NGO, INGO, trade union, so called civil society or Maranadhara Samithi. They can be agitators, opinion makers and what not as long as they act within the purview of the constitution of the country. The other stakeholders have the right to oppose demands by trade unions and pressure groups whether they are so called educated or not. As indirect tax payers, citizens, electors with our names on the electoral lists are all stakeholders in any issue and it is not the prerogative of well financed bodies, influential people to be opinion makers. If a trade union thinks that as it sees in the public interest it should oppose demands by another trade union it should be free to do so, letting the government decide what it should do. Let the people decide once in five or six years whether the government in power had made the correct decisions. However, having said all that it has to be pointed out that the government cannot sign memoranda of understanding with FUTA on matters connected with education as it is not the only stakeholder in the field of education.

Though some teachers and teacher’s associations in the universities now agitate for what they think is a better deal for education it is unfortunate that they have no advise to be given to the government on the Z score problem which unfortunately is a creation of the academics themselves assisted by anti government school teacher unions, and on the mistakes in the question papers set for the A/L examinations. The latter problem is not something unique to this year though some media attempt to project a picture blaming the examination department as if the problem has arisen for the first time. If one goes through the files one would come across mistakes in question papers during the time Ranil Wickremesinghe was the minister of education, and if a Parliamentary Select Committee were to be appointed to look into the work of the examination department it should be given the mandate to cover the period to date commencing from 1977, the year J. R. Jayewardene came to power.

It is also unfortunate that twenty years ago when I was dismissed from the University of Colombo neither FUTA nor the teachers’ associations at Colombo took any action against the decision by the council of that university. It is ironic at that the time I was dismissed I was the President of FUTA, the President of the Science Teachers’ Association at Colombo and a member of the committee of the University Teachers’ Associations of the University of Colombo. Some of the teachers at Colombo who are now agitating for a better deal for education did not allow me even to present my case to the two teachers’ associations mentioned above. They did not want to listen to me though the Minister and the UGC were listening to me on the demands for a salary increase for the teachers and other benefits. As I have already said I continued to be the President of FUTA though I lost my membership with the two teachers’ associations, thanks to the English Instructors’ Union that elected me as one of their representatives to FUTA. Perhaps, these valiant members of the teachers’ associations who now are now fighting for free education in the country thought then that I was a barrier to free education. Of course at that time there was no Faculty of Arts Teachers’ Association at the University of Colombo and the University Teachers’ Association covered all the Faculties of the University.

I must say that Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri, the current President of FUTA was an assistant lecturer at that time, and he and a few others wanted to take up my case but they were a powerless insignificant minority who were steamrolled by a combination of Socialists and Liberals. I am sure that Prof. Uyangoda remembers this incident and if he has forgotten it he could consult very senior academics at that time who later became Vice Chancellors and Chancellors at various universities. As a result of the trade union struggle the lecturers got a very substantial salary increase though I was denied of it due to my expulsion from the University of Colombo.

Even twenty years ago there was a discussion on boycotting of setting, moderating question papers and marking answer scripts at the G C E (A/L) Examination. However saner council prevailed and FUTA did not decide to go along with the proposal. A trade union can take a decision to withhold, withdraw the services labour rendered to the relevant institution but not to others or other institutions. It is true that the Department of Examinations usually appoints university lecturers and retired lecturers as controllers in chief, setters, moderators etc. but it has to be emphasized that it is the Department of Examinations that appoints them and not the relevant university. The services rendered to the Department of Examinations do not come under the purview of the letters of appointment of the lecturers issued by the universities and no university teachers’ association has the right to withdraw the services rendered by the lecturers to the Department of Examinations. The lecturers though appointed as examiners of the G. C. E. (A/L) examination by virtue of being lecturers, they do not serve the Department of examinations as lecturers. It is a voluntary service offered by the lecturers in their personal capacity for which they are remunerated and any lecturer has the freedom to refrain from working as an examiner at the G. C. E. (A/L) examination, whereas a lecturer cannot refuse to work as an examiner at an examination conducted by the university after he/she is appointed as an examiner by the senate of the relevant university.

Would FUTA decide to prevent university lecturers being appointed as secretaries of ministries, chairpersons of statutory bodies etc., as a course of action in respect of trade union struggle? It is an infringement of the individual rights of university academics and it is advisable if FUTA restricts its trade union action to university affairs without getting involved in court cases over human rights of members and also of the right of the public to obtain the services of the university lecturers whenever a need arises, of course with the consent of the lecturers concerned. The public as a body obtain the services of the university lecturers through government departments and FUTA should not be a hindrance in respect of this right of the public. The irony is that while FUTA claims that it is fighting for the improvement of free education in the country it debars the university lecturers from working as examiners at the G C E (A/L) examination which is part of free education, but allows the academics to serve private institutions that prepare students for degrees awarded by foreign universities. I am not saying that the teachers’ associations should take action on the latter as well, which they cannot do for the reasons I have mentioned above. The teachers’ associations could say that they are private institutions and not public departments and that their struggle is with the government and not with these private institutions, but the contradiction is illuminating.

(To be continued)

FUTA levels fresh threat to govt.

August 21, 2012, 9:42 pm

by Dasun Edirisinghe

University teachers yesterday warned the education ministry that if it decided to evaluate answer scripts of the GCE (A/L) examination without their involvement, they would not approve the admission of those students to the universities.

Addressing a media conference, at the National Library Auditorium, Vice President of the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) Ven. Dambara Amila thera said that they could do it through their members of the faculty boards, senate and the council of respective universities.

"Admission of students to the universities would be decided by those supreme bodies of the respective universities," he said.

Amila thera said that the measurement to admit students to Sri Lankan universities was the GCE (A/L) examination. But if answer scripts were marked without their involvement it would be substandard.

He said they were on an all out strike demanding the government to allocate 6% of the GDP to education, consult them when taking decisions on higher education and a pay hike.

According to him, they would not participate in answer script evaluation until their demands were met.

Universities closed indefinitely

August 21, 2012, 12:00 pm , The Island

by Dasun Edirisinghe

Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake yesterday decided to close all universities, except medical faculties, until further notice, due to the ongoing strike by university teachers.

However, the universities whose dons have not taken part in the ongoing trade union action will function normally.

Ministry spokesman Mangala Janaka told The Island that the Uva Wellassa, South-Eastern, Buddhist and Pali, Buddasrawaka Bhikkhu universities and the Yakkala Wickramaarchchi Ayurvedha Institute would function as usual.

University teachers launched an all out strike on July 04 demanding that the government allocate 6 per cent of the GDP for education, consult them when taking decision on the higher education sector and they be given a pay hike.

The full statement issued by Minister Dissanayake is as follows:

"The university crisis in this country has been continuing without a practical solution for the last two months, putting the most intelligent student segment of this country in darkness and without any hopes and their parents are badly frustrated. The government strongly believes that this is not a healthy environment for all stakeholders, especially the students and parents.

When we analyze the prevailing situation in the academic crisis, it is very clear to all that there are some invisible parties who want to use this crisis to achieve their petty political motives while they do not seek any positive alternatives to resolve the matter amicably.

Initially, we strongly believed that there were no political motives behind this trade union action and based on that assumption for the last two months, the government put all its efforts into resolving the matter in amicable manner through negotiations and a friendly series of discussions. As a result, we had series of discussions with the Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) at three levels. Firstly, at the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) level, secondly at the Presidential Secretary level with the MOHE, and finally with Hon. Minister Basil Rajapaksa, with the Presidential Secretary on concurrence with the MOHE. We have had around ten discussions and exchanging of letters, drafts of MOU etc. and still FUTA has not agreed to resolve this matter amicably due to some unknown reasons which may be mainly due to political reasons.

What we now strongly believe is that there may be some hidden political agendas and motives behind this trade union action and by using the same few parties are trying to create a political crisis in the country to use it to their advantage by taking the majority of innocent academics against their will for this trade union action. Finally, their aim is to create instability and a political crisis leading to a regime change, we guess.

To prove that, we will explain FUTAs six main demands, which they have put forward before the trade union action.

1. Increase the basic salary of all university academics by 20% immediately.

2. Spend 6% of GDP on education and work to achieve this target during the next few years.

3. Creat a separate service for university academics (SLUAS)

4. De-politicise the universities and protect the academic freedom of the teachers.

5. When introducing changes to the higher education system and changing the managements do it in consultation with the academics.

6. Allow the academic community to actively participate in the economic development process and create a conducive environment.

As a result of series of discussions, the government has already agreed to five demands from No.2 to No.6 in writing. In case of demand No.1, (20% basic salary increase) the government has clearly indicated to FUTA that for the time being it is unable to accept that demand since it may create many discrepancies and anomalies in the national salary structure creating other repercussions. Please note the fact that during the last one year the government has given them total salary increases ranging from from 36 per cent to 83 per cent through various allowances and payments. Therefore, it is impossible to consider the demand No.1 now, but definitely in the future when the right environment occurs. In our discussions, FUTA has clearly accepted the fact that it is not possible for the government to give a further salary increase to them for the time being. Further, the government has proposed to appoint a special Presidential Commission on Higher Education and to establish a Post Graduate University in the near future. The government has clearly already communicated the above facts in writing to the FUTA and still FUTA is dragging this trade union action without any reasonable reason other than political reasons. This is what we now have clearly observed from the outcome during the last two months.

The government strongly believes that it is high time to make the universities normal and run the system smoothly to safeguard the future of students and the parents’ expectations. We would like to focus on the following situation prevailing in the university system today:

1. Trade union action is active in various levels depending on the university, faculty and Institute:

a. There are universities, institutes and faculties not participating in the trade union action at all. Those are:

i. Uva Wellassa university

ii. South-Eastern University

iii. Buddhist and Pali University - Homagama

iv. Buddasrawaka University – Anuradhapura

v. Yakkala Wickramaarchchi Ayurvedha Institute

vi. All the medical faculties, except Ruhuna university medical faculty.

vii. In some universities various percentages of academics are performing their lectures, exams and other workshops and research activities.

The above prevailing situation creates a very confusing state and nobody knows whether the university system is effectively functioning or not.

2. The above complicated situation does not support the smooth functioning of the university system and government thinks that the situation should be rectified as soon as possible.

3. As the Minister of Higher Education, I had a detailed discussion on 20th August, 2012 with all the Vice Chancellors and Directors of universities and the academics that did not participate in the trade union action at present and all of them insisted that the prevailing environment in the university system is not very conducive and we have to take some remedial action immediately.

4. As power given in the University Act No.16, 1978 section 20(4)(a) as the Minister of Higher education, I have decided to close the following universities and institutes until further notice for academic activities effective from 21st August, 2012.

University of Colombo, except the Faculty of Medicine

University of Peradeniya, except the Faculty of Medicine

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, except the Faculty of Medicine

University of Kelaniya, except the Faculty of Medicine

University of Moratuwa

University of Jaffna, except the Faculty of Medicine

University of Ruhuna, except the Faculty of Medicine

Eastern University, Sri Lanka, except the Faculty of Health-Care Sciences

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, except the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

Wayamba University of Sri Lanka

University of Visual and Performing Arts

The Open University of Sri Lanka

Institute of Indigenous Medicine

University of Colombo School of Computing

Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies

Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA), University of Colombo

Institute of Technology, University of Moratuwa

Sripalee Campus

Trincomalee Campus

Vavuniya Campus

5. At the same time MOHE will notify the resumption date of the above universities and institutes as soon as possible."

Universities closed until further notice

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:42, DailyMirror   Amid the continuing strike by university teachers, Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanyake  said today all universities excluding the medical faculties would be shut down with immediate  effect until further notice. The minister said all management level stakeholders including University Vice Chancellors,  Directors and Academics had met on Monday to discuss the crisis and it was unanimously  decided to shut down all universities. “As Higher Education Minister and under the Universities Act No.16 I have decided  to close the universities until further notice. The Higher Education Ministry will notify  the date of reopening,” the minister said. (OJ)

Sri Lankan academics need soul searching to find core values

August 20, 2012, 7:39 pm , The Island


By Dr.Gamini Kulatunga

The Open University of Sri Lanka, Faculty of Engineering Technology (retired)

 There were two articles on the subject of Cuckoo land written by C.A. Chandraprema and Prof. Amal S. Kumarage that appeared in the Sunday Island in the last two weeks, respectively. I am responding as a retired university teacher who joined the academia after serving in the industry for over two decades. The reasons for my career-transformation, I would not like to elaborate on, but it was definitely not prompted by any financial gain.

The two writers, with their own thinking based on their life experiences, refer to cuckoo land of academics but the main thrust is on a flawed comparison of income and working conditions in the academia and industry. The comparison of salaries does not take into account the nature of work and the motivation in the two disparate realms. Even if these crucial factors are discounted, both have not mentioned the privilege of taking Sabbatical full pay leave, the academics enjoy every seven years, which would amount to a 15% increase in accrued benefits. I am not taking into account the air tickets to any part of the world where one has got an invitation. The air fare includes that for the spouse and the possibility of earning extra income during the period.

This privilege may be illusive for most present day academics due to many reasons. But, I enjoyed two such occasions that took me and my wife to different parts of the world on work assignments and highly valuable exposure.

Teaching and Research

The academic world is one of teaching and research, which complement each other, and it calls for a commitment of a different nature to that of industry. Industry is motivated by profit-making and the salaries are paid based on delivery of services to meet this end. The extrinsic rewards for work of this nature, that could be assessed in the short-term, do not apply to creative and self-directed work as found in the academia. There are several studies showing only intrinsic rewards that assist in the second category of work (please see note attached at the end).

The main argument put forward by the academics, is based on spending a minimum percentage of GDP on education. This assumes that GDP is a good measure of development in a country. What this type of measure would do to the universities is quite evident now: more buildings, laboratories and equipment but with internal decay promoted by politics, rivalry and jealousy.

The compartment with no water

An example I can quote comes from my own experience at the Open University working in water-tight compartments, highly protected by narrow thinking. We formed an Agricultural Engineering Department, with the help of the British Government, to cater to meet a dire need to infuse engineering to the ailing agricultural sector. Now, the department functions without a single engineer as the three engineers trained in the UK, including myself, have left due to many reasons, and no replacements have been done since then. Now there is only the compartment but no water!

Prof. Krishna Kumar of Delhi University says that academics now treat teaching as institutional work and research as furthering personal career. This seems to be the contention of Prof. Amal. S Kumarage too, when he says consultancy work is a distraction to teaching. Chandraprema thinks this is a way to solve the salary issue. I would think both are misguided in this regard. Any such interaction with the outside world is a must for better teaching.

Teaching based on reality

The lack of intellectual stimulation, among the students by attending the lectures and project work, stems from the dearth of experience of teachers based on reality.  The answer to this is in the false measures, adopted in academic wisdom, of enforced attendance and the current ‘diploma disease’. This wisdom extends to teaching what is in demand but not what is needed.

The reported poor performance of foreign scholarship-students attending local universities may point to the obvious but sad situation prevailing in the local universities. It seems we are able to attract the worst students from other countries. This should be taken as a useful feedback and corrective action must be taken instead of carrying on with a captive audience of local A-level students who have no choice other than joining the rat race.

The problem lies in treating education as an investment like operating a bus service. According to one writer the pay-back period in engineering education is just three years. Then why not ask the students to take bank-loans and pay tuition-fees as there will be no other such lucrative business opportunities elsewhere.

I feel the metaphor of RMS Titanic is very apt. If we go ahead without any change and even have wild dreams of producing 27,000 engineering graduates (equivalent to money spent on CPC hedging-deal!) the whole engineering profession will sink faster than the Titanic and the profession will be beyond any recovery, it may be too late.

Reassessment and soul searching

What is needed is a reassessment of what the academics are doing, and assess whether it meets the needs of development, not mere accreditation mainly for foreign employment. Unless some soul-searching is done, the academics should not expect any support either from the public or the politicians.  Instead, they could treat tertiary education as a business venture and continue to produce goods for the global markets.

Note on Rewarding creativity: When does it really matter?

 This study examined the possibility that the relation between extrinsic rewards (e.g., pay and recognition) and employee creativity varied as a function of two conditions: employee job complexity and employee cognitive style. Our results showed a positive relation between extrinsic rewards and creativity for employees with an adaptive cognitive style who worked on relatively simple jobs. Wefound a weak relation between rewards and creativity for employees with an innovative cognitive style who worked on complex jobs and a negative relation for those in the adaptive style/complex job and innovative style/simple job conditions. We discussed theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

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the death penalty

The on-going university crisis

August 20, 2012, 7:42 pm, The Island

A Brief Statement from NASSL

A well-functioning higher education system is what enables a country to improve or at least maintain its comparative and competitive advantage in today’s globalised world. Sri Lanka has over the years benefited from a highly organized education system that the nation could be proud of, consisting of some 10,390 Government Schools, 76 Private Schools, 15 National Universities, 7 Post-graduate Institutes and a number of Vocational and Technical Schools, National Colleges of Education, and Vocational Training Institutes.

Unfortunately, the current stand-off between Government authorities and the teaching staff in the universities (together with the chaos that prevails in the university admission procedures), risks negating the outstanding achievements of Sri Lanka’s education system over more than half a century. Graduates of our universities have been able to hold their own with graduates of universities in the most advanced countries of the world. Our universities are the apex bodies that produce the highly trained manpower for the development of technology, research and the innovations needed to give the edge to Sri Lankan producers to remain competitive.

As a national body of eminent scientists created by an Act of Parliament and with a mandate "to take cognizance of and report on issues in which scientific and technological considerations are paramount to the national interest" the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (NASSL) wishes to raise its deep concern over the degree of apathy that appears to prevail in the country over this crisis in higher education, with the national university system being dysfunctional for nearly two months. This type of closure of the most vital institutions in the higher education sector is highly undesirable and all Sri Lankans should be much more aware and express their concern more audibly about it. There appears to be no hurry to settle the issue or even to establish a meaningful dialogue. An approach of "wait-and-see" or endless confrontation are not tools to adopt when the future of the country’s education is at stake. The NASSL wishes to urge all parties concerned to act responsibly and to work with focus towards an equitable, lasting solution. The situation calls not for face saving measures but for action with nation’s interest at heart. We wait for the highest form of leadership to be displayed at this juncture.

Dr. Kingsley A. de Alwis

President, National Academy of

Sciences of Sri Lanka

Resolve education chaos or face armed insurrection, says TNA

August 20, 2012, 9:46 pm , The Island


by Zacki Jabbar

 The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday warned that unless the chaos in the country’s education system was resolved expeditiously, it could lead to another armed insurrection.

The Tamil uprising had actually begun in London in the 1970’, long before LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran entered the scene; Tamil students who were affected by the standardisation policy had been forced to go to England to pursue higher studies after their parents sold whatever assets they had, TNA MP M. A. Sumanthiran told a news conference in Colombo.

He said that the youth were bitter about what had happened to them in their motherland and it became one of the primary reasons for the ethnic conflict that had been dragging on for decades.

EPRLF leader, Suresh Premachandran, was a living example of a Tamil who had abandoned his studies in London and gone to Palestine for military training, Sumanthiran said, adding that the pioneering General Union of Eelam Students and Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students comprised many like minded persons.

A countrywide protest would be launched before the next budget to ensure that sufficient funds were allocated to provide ample educational opportunities up to university level, the MP said.

Sumanthiran said that the current budgetary allocation for education was a joke when compared to the monies being wasted by the Rajapaksa government on propaganda activities.

The seeds of conflict had been sown once again with the Z-Score crisis and other related problems. History could repeat itself unless urgent remedial measures were implemented, Sumanthiran noted.

The UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was also of the view that one of the main reasons for terrorism in Sri Lanka was the mistakes that had been committed in the education sector.

When avenues for academic progress were closed, the youth got frustrated and violent. The government should immediately constitute a Parliamentary Select Committee to do a thorough analysis of the drawbacks in the educational system before it was too late, he said.

இலவச கல்வியை இல்லாது ஒழிப்பதா? ஆசியாவின் ஆச்சரியம் ; யாழ்,பல்கலை மாணவர்கள் கேள்வி

UTHAYAN 

ஆசியாவின் ஆச்சரியம் என்பது இலவச கல்வியை இல்லாமல் செய்வதா என யாழ்.பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர்கள் கேள்வி எழுப்பியுள்ளனர்.

பல்கலைக்கழக விரிவுரையாளர்களில் பிரச்சனைக்கு தீர்வு வழங்குவதுடன் கல்வி செயற்பாடுகளை உடனடியாக ஆரம்பிக்குமாறும் வலியுறுத்தி இன்றைய தினம் யாழ்.பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர்கள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் ஒன்றை முன்னெடுத்தனர் அதன் போதே அவர்கள் இதனை தெரிவித்தனர்.

இன்றைய தினம் காலை 9.30 மணியளவில் பல்கலைக்கழக வளாகத்தில் ஒன்றுகூடிய நூற்றுக்கணக்கான மாணவர்கள் ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்டனர்.

இதன் போது பல்கலைக்கழக கல்வியில் அரசியல் தலையீடு எதற்கு, எங்களின் வளமான கல்வியே நாளைய சிறந்த சமுதாயத்தை உருவாக்கும்,இசட் புள்ளி குழறுபடிக்கு தீர்வு வழங்கிக்கி பல்கலை அனுமதியை உடன் வழங்கு,

மகிந்த சிந்தனை என்பது இலவசக் கல்வியை இல்லாதொழிப்பதா?, வரவு செலவுத் திட்டத்தில் 6 வீதத்தை கல்விக்கு ஒதுக்கு,

போன்ற பதாதைகளை தாங்கியவாறும் பல்வேறு கோசங்கள் எழுப்பியவாறும் மாணவர்கள் பல்கலைக்கழக வாசலில் நின்று ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடத்தினர்.

எனினும் ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் இடம் பெற்ற சிறிய நேரத்தில் அப்பகுதிக்கு இராணுவ புலனாய்வுத் துறையினரும்,சிறீலங்கா காவல் துறையினரும் வந்தடைந்தனர்.

ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்ட மாணவர்களை பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர்களை உள்ளே சென்று ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தில் ஈடுபடுமாறு கோரிக்கை விடுத்தான் எனினும் மாணவர்கள் அவரது கருத்துக்கு செவிசாய்க்காமல் தமது ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்தை முன்னெடுத்தனர்.

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