Telangana govt names IIIT Basara director, but students decline the same

By Our Special Correspondent

The students of IIIT Basara in the Nirmal district are up in arms against the Telangana government for leaving their institution orphaned with no proper infrastructure or ambience for them to study.

The decision was announced after Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, Endowment Minister A Indrakaran Reddy and some other officials held a meeting. It has no regular Vice-Chancellor and the ad-hoc administration neither has the funds nor the powers to take up any work that would ameliorate the conditions on the campus.

Leaders of student unions like TJAC, SFI, AISF and others reached the university, only to be detained by the police and shifted to the Basara police station.

The students who began protesting the apathetic attitude of the State government on Tuesday, June 14, continued their agitation for the second day on the institution's campus on Wednesday, June 15, insisting that the government should accept all their 12 demands.

Criticizing Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy for describing the demands of the IIIT-Basara students as “trivial issues”, Narayana said that she was perhaps unaware that students cannot study without facilities and faculty.

While most of the students boycotted classes and staged their protest in front of the administrative office, some tried to continue their agitation outside the campus, but the police stepped in and confined them to the campus.

“If there is no problem in the institution, why has the government imposed so many restrictions and not allowing us to meet the students in the campus? Is it an educational institution or a central jail,” he asked.