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'Accept Kashmiris demand for reviving REC in Srinagar' Shift NIT to Jammu 5/13/2016 12:04:58 AM Early Times Report jammu, May 12: Not one but many Kashmiri opinion makers have been expressing the view since March 31 this year that the elevation of status of Regional Engineering College (REC) Srinagar to that of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar was an anti-Kashmiri step. "The conversion of REC into NIT which changed its composition of 50 per cent State and 50 per cent Central to 80 per cent Central and 20 per cent State" has adversely impacted the youth of Kashmir. In other words, they have demanded restoration of the REC so that outsiders are debarred from seeking admission in the institution. It would be only desirable if their demand is accepted and NIT shifted from Kashmir to Jammu. Revival of REC in Srinagar will meet the demands of the Kashmiri people and the shifting of NIT from Srinagar to Jammu will meet the long-pending demand of non-Kashmiri students. There is hardly any non-Kashmiri student who wants to study in the NIT Srinagar. For, the environment on the campus is very hostile. It is hostile to the extent that non-local students can't move out of the campus, as they fear attacks on them. Besides, they can't hoist national flag in the campus and chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan. The fact of the matter is that they have no freedom and they live in an environment that is frightening. What happened on the campus between March 31 and April 12 and what forced all the non-local students to quit Srinagar on April 11 and 12 is still too fresh to be forgotten. The barbarities inflicted upon them by the subversives still linger in the mind of the Indian nation. Yes, they returned to Srinagar after April 30, but they returned because the Indian political class in general and the BJP government at the centre in particular abandoned them and left them with no other option but to return to Srinagar to complete the course. It is hoped the Modi government will appreciate the concerns of the Kashmiri people and non-local students of the NIT Srinagar and revive the REC in Kashmir and shift the NIT to Jammu.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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