Dinhata College. (Main Uddin Chisti)

Cooch Behar, March 13: Normal classes will resume at Dinhata College tomorrow after a week following the intervention of the North Bengal University (NBU) registrar and other senior officials.

The registrar, Dilip Kumar Sarkar, and the inspector of colleges, Subrata Sanyal, held a meeting with the principal and governing body members of the college to solve the impasse. Representatives of the non-teaching employees also attended it.

The college had stopped functioning following the “reluctance” of the principal to conduct elections to the student union. The Chhatra Bloc led anti-SFI union had locked the college on March 3, which led to the principal, Ashis Sarkar, to go on a two-month leave from the next day. The non-teaching employees also struck work from March 6.

The agitation had prevented about 700 second-year students from filling up examination forms, the last date for submission of which was March 6.

The registrar said: “The principal will join tomorrow and classes will resume. We have told all teachers to attend the college every day, even if they have no classes.” The last date for submission of forms have been extended to March 24, he said.

The student union election will be held after June.