Education
Hundreds of students of Tri-Chandra College, Nepal’s oldest institution for higher studies, took to the streets yet again on Friday, demanding reconstruction of century-old buildings which were further destroyed by 2015 earthquakes.
As the agitating students took to the streets of Ghantaghar, or the clock tower, in the heart of Kathmandu, the busy office hour traffic movement was severely affected. They have been staging similar protests for weeks as part of “Save Tri-Chandra” campaign.
Established in 1918, Tri-Chandra College hosted numerous Nepali students – among them Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa – in recent decades. Even today, nearly 11,000 students have enrolled here, seeking degrees in humanities and science faculties.
But the students say they are “sick and tired of the government’s apathy to Tri-Chandra College” most of whose buildings remain cracked or even ruined particularly after the devastating earthquakes of April and May 2015.
The students are more agitated because the National Reconstruction Authority too didn’t carry out reconstruction of the campus buildings. One of the placards held by the protesting students read, “You can build View Towers everywhere – but why not Tri-Chandra?”
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