National Institute of Technology Srinagar Campus is incessantly under the thick blanket of Security personnel. The strife broke out in the main Campus of the state’s NIT has widely evoke calm among the sections of students. It has been a week now since the class work sets on suspension due to clashes between Local and Non-Local students. The celebration of the victory of West Indies against India in T20 in Semi-Final on 31st March turns ugly after the sections of students rear-end with each other. The Human Resource Development Minister (HRD) had sent a team to the campus after a local police
lathicharged a group of outstation students after they were protesting earlier this week. The incident has strongly criticized by opposition leaders.Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister of the State Dr, Nirmal Singh has ordered a probe into this matter and asked to put forward the report within 15 days. “I promise that every student will be kept safe, and I have directed authorities for an enquiry in the violence,” Singh said.Pertinently, On Friday morning scores of Non-Local Students tried to take out a march in the campus to press their demands. However the security personnel presented their stopped them and asked them to move back in a peaceful manner. The student’s demand mainly includes the shifting of NIT from Hazratbal Srinagar to outstations of Valley.
Brief Overview of Unrest in the Campus:-
On March 31st Kashmiri students were celebrating the victory of West Indies over India in a Semi-Final, when a group of Non-Local students smash together with local students inside the campus leaving a few injured.On 1st day of April Non-Local students waived the Tri-colour on the campus and tried to hoists it close at hand to administrative block
too to protest against the celebration by local students. These Non-Local students chant slogans like ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ ‘Hindustan Zindabad’ and ‘Pakistan Murdabad’. Local Kashmiri students too raised counter-slogans like ‘Hum Kya Chahte Aazadi’.On 4th April classes were resumed again as the Director of NIT Srinagar Dr. Rajat Gupta assured students, faculity and parents that the prevailing tension was temporary and had been overcome.
On 5th April fresh clashes were broke out once again when some engineering students staged a protest march inside the campus and allegedly tried to leave the campus, clashed with local police. This added fuel to the fire.
On 7th April J&K State’s Deputy Chief Minister Dr, Nirmal Singh set up an enquiry commission into this matter and assured are the
students will be kept safe. Meanwhile Home Minister Rajnath Singh and HRD Minister Simriti Irani said that they are in continuing touch with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and she has assured the safety of the students.
On 8th April Non-Local students tried to take out a march towards main gate of the campus in order to press their demands, but the state police did not allowed them to march frontward.