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Outstation college students send letter with 19 demands to schooling Minister
Hoist tricolour, instill feel of protection on campus, call for NIT college students
Clashes broke out on campus after India’s defeat in world T20 semi-final
With the authorities having ruled out transferring NIT Srinagar following the latest unrest, outstationcollege students these days demanded that prime Minister Narendra Modi or schooling Minister Smriti Irani visit the campus and hoist the tricolour to instill a feel of protection.
In a letter to Ms Irani, the scholars have located a hard and fast of nineteen demands, which includeseverlasting deployment of CRPF on the campus, reshuffle of university management, formation ofstudents‘ Council, option of out of doors evaluation of examination marksheets and celebration ofcountrywide fairs at the institute.
The letter changed into presented to HRD officers today. “We request both the Hon’ble minister of HRD or the prime Minister of India to come with students to NIT Srinagar and hoist full length Tiranga inside thecampus at its maximum mast.”
this can give up the depart taken by way of college students and also provide them a experience ofsafety.
“this may reiterate the message that Kashmir is an critical a part of India and college students may have apsychological win over the anti-country wide factors inside the campus as well as out of doors,” the scholars wrote inside the letter.
the scholars have also demanded an enquiry towards “suspects” inside the current incidents of violence at the campus and sought reimbursement of medical payments of injured students by means of theuniversity authorities.
a set of nearly a dozen college students‘ representatives provided the needs in the course of a nearly 3-hour meeting where NIT Srinagar Director Rajat Gupta and Director inside the HRD ministry Sanjeev Sharma have been additionally present.
last week, the scholars had met HRD minister Smriti Irani, who ruled out transferring of NIT campushowever assured help in instructional topics.
“we’ve got offered our demands and hope that the ministry will take motion to create a appropriatesurroundings,” said Swayam, a scholar, who changed into part of the delegation, after the meeting.
NIT Srinagar has been at the centre of a problem considering April 1 while clashes broke out amongoutstation and neighborhood students following India’s defeat to West Indies inside the global Cup T20 semi-final.
The scenario worsened on April 5 when outstation students tried to take out a march outside the campushowever have been stopped by means of the police, main to incidents of violence along with vandalism bystudents and lathicharge by means of police.
