After govt change, Pramod da wants Presi canteen back

Kolkata: After the change of govt, Pramod Swain, the canteen operator at Presidency University who had been evicted in 2017, wrote to VC Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty, requesting the necessary steps to allow him to run the canteen on campus again.

“I ran the students’ canteen with bona fide authorisation for almost three and a half decades. Before me, my elder brother and uncle ran it. During my tenure, ‘Promod-dar Canteen’ became an integral part of the college’s identity amongst the students,” he wrote in the letter.

Swain said he took up the matter to resume canteen operations time and again, but in vain. In the letter, he urged the VC to take the necessary steps and said he is ready to cooperate if any rearrangement of financial terms and conditions is required.