Bhubaneswar, April 9: Biju Patnaik University of Technology today started an indefinite hunger strike near Raj Bhavan in protest against shifting of the varsity camp office from Bhubaneswar to Rourkela.

About 500 students under the banner of BPUT Students’ Union today met the governor and urged him to stop the “unauthorised” shifting of the camp office and handed him a memorandum listing their demands.

The students said the decision of the state government to run the camp office in Bhubaneswar in the third week of every month was not being followed properly.

The students have been demanding camp office operations in the capital because many colleges are situated in and around Bhubaneswar. The students are inconvenienced because they have to travel all the way to Rourkela for issues such as registration numbers, corrections, omissions and deletions in certificates and mark sheets.

“They are not following their commitment to hold the camp office once a month, and now they have decided to shift the office altogether without any notice to the students,” said Jitendra Das, a student.

Not a single office operated from the campus during the last six months, thus blatantly flouting the orders of the state government, Das said.

The students demanded that orders should be passed immediately to stop the office shift.

“This apart, we also demand that students who have got admission through the All India Engineering Examination should be issued registration numbers. The delay has caused the death of a student yesterday,” said Samapta, another student.

BPUT authorities denied that the camp office was being shifted.Officials said they were following orders of the technical education department that told them to vacate the ground floor of the Gandamunda building for the varsity’s central placement cell.