Silchar, May 4: Assam University's Silchar campus impasse was resolved following a tripartite meeting convened by the Cachar district administration this afternoon.

The university was declared shut last evening following a clash between police and students at around 1.30am.

In a bid to resolve the issue, the Cachar district administration convened a meeting with students and the higher authorities of the university today at Bipin Chandra Pal auditorium.

Acting vice-chancellor Ranju Rani Dhamala and register Sanjib Kumar Bhattacharjee spoke on behalf of the administration, while additional deputy commissioner Simanta Kumar Das and additional superintendent of police Abhijit Gaurav were present on behalf of the district administration. Debanjan Sen spoke on behalf of the students in the meeting.

Expressing concern over the decision of the university administration, which declared yesterday that all academic activities of the varsity would remain suspended until further orders, students today demanded the completion of examinations by May 30.

The vice-chancellor, agreeing to this demand, said they would need to start the examinations by May 7 to complete it by May 30.

"All the post-graduate, under-graduate and integrated semester examinations will begin from May 7 and will be held as per the earlier schedule. The respective heads of the departments and deans were requested to fix the dates to conduct the examinations to some papers, that were scheduled to be held from May 3 to May 6," Dhamala said.

The integrated pre-PhD coursework examinations will be held as per the earlier schedule.

The students who were demanding the postponement of the final even-semester examinations by a week today agreed to appear for the examinations from May 7.

Regarding the students' demand on the clarification of lathi-charge by police on students who were protesting in front of the varsity main gate, Das said that he would request Cachar deputy commissioner S. Viswanathan to order a magisterial inquiry into the incident. He, however, added that as per the preliminary report that he received, police fired rubber bullets only after stones were hurled at security personnel deployed on campus.

Assam University Non-Teaching Association (AUNTA), however, today demanded that the examinations be conducted between May 15 and May 30 as they would need some time to make arrangements for conducting the examinations.

Non-teaching employees will hold a daylong ceasework tomorrow in protest against the harassment they faced on Monday evening when students allegedly closed the main gate.