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HRD team reaches Srinagar, holds talks with students at NIT

CRPF companies keep vigil on campus
Last Updated 07 April 2016, 03:02 IST

A day after several students were injured in police action at  National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, a three member team from Union HRD ministry on Wednesday held talks with the officials and protesting students of the engineering college.

The three member HRD ministry team which arrived here to take stock of the situation met Director NIT Srinagar Rajat Gupta and other senior officials, who briefed them about the prevailing situation in the premier engineering institute, sources told Deccan Herald. The team which includes Sanjeev Sharma, Director (Technical Education) in the HRD ministry, Deputy Director Finance Fazal Mehmood and Chairman of Board of Governors of NIT M J Zarabi, also held talks with the protesting students.

Sources said the protesting students kept several demands before the visiting team which includes transfer of some NIT officials, action against them for their alleged “anti-national” activities, action against police officials who resorted to lathi charge on students on Tuesday night and permission to hoist tri-colour at the main gate of the college daily.

They also demand shifting of the NIT campus to Jammu, building of a temple inside campus, return of the National Flag they had hoisted on the campus which was later seized by the police

The agitating students have also demanded that exams scheduled from Monday be postponed to allow them to go home.

However, a senior official of the NIT said the non-local students were using minor incidents as an excuse to seek migration to their home state. “Demands like building a temple inside an educational institute is impossible. But some students are making it is an excuse,” he said.

On Tuesday night, some protesting non-local engineering students were injured in police action when they tried to march outside the campus to press for their demands.

However, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said that about 500 students of the NIT Srinagar in the shape of a mob resorted to violence by assaulting policemen including officers.

“The police chased the mob and in the melee some of the students got injured. The police have lodged a case FIR No 45 at police station Nigeen and started investigations,” a police spokesman said.

Authorities have deployed two CRPF companies for security of the non-local students at the campus with a SP rank officer stationed to keep a vigil.

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(Published 06 April 2016, 19:08 IST)

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