PANAJI
The students from Goa College of Architecture continued to boycott their classes even on Tuesday as the college administration failed to provide any assurance over Council of Architecture (COA) failure to grant them registration, without which they cannot practice as professional architects.
More than 50 students have been protesting since Monday over COA’s non issuance of registration. The students are currently studying in their final year of a five-year BArch degree course.
The students have now decided to write to the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and the Directorate of Higher Education seeking their immediate intervention in the matter.
The final year students pointed out that since 2019, they are without COA registration and despite being repeatedly brought to the notice of the College Principal and the Administration, the issue remained unresolved. They said that the registration number, is technically issued in the very first year of the degree programme and it continues till we complete study and opt for a professional license.
“We had given time till Monday to the Principal to produce the documents to prove that the college administration had taken steps to ensure registration number is granted to the students,” the students said.
“However, the Principal failed to do so. This clearly shows that college administration is at fault,” they added.
