On August 3, Armenian students in Indian city of Calcutta started a “3-day hunger strike” to protest the alleged high-handedness of the Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy on Free School Street, telegraphindia.com website reports.

According to the source, 35 of the 80-odd students from all over the world, now living in the academy’s hostel have refused to eat, alleging that they were being forced to study in “second-rate” institutions, because the management was not funding their education properly.

“I am being forced to study in a second-rung college because the academy authorities are not ready to fund my education at a better institution,” said one of the students.

The management declined to comment on the fact. Last month, the authorities had allegedly suspended two students for failing to memorize poems. The students were promised that the management would fund their entire education and help them to get an opportunity to study and work abroad. But now they are not even being allowed to apply to good colleges in Calcutta or other cities in India.