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| Exams for higher classes begin in Kashmir; No word on NIT | | |
Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 30: While the government may have begun exams for higher classes in Kashmir valley, the studies of students at National Institute of Technology continue to suffer as non-locals are reluctant to return to the Valley.
Government has started exams for post graduate and under graduate courses in the Valley, but there is complete silence over the NIT Srinagar where no efforts are being made to resume the studies.
While during the unrest, the non-local students left the Valley as there was no assurance from the government to provide them security inside the campus.
Sources said the government was making no efforts for return of non-locals to the Valley and to ensure they were provided adequate security.
"The non-local students have told the authorities several times that either NIT Srinagar should be shifted outside the Valley or government should provide them proper security so that they feel safe," an official said.
The official said many non-local students have written to the HRD ministry that they won't return to the Valley. "These students have been demanding shifting of NIT outside Kashmir probably in Jammu. Government needs to give them confidence that proper security will be provided to them but authorities are completely silent when their studies would resume," the official said.
This is the second time within eight months when there is such a demand from non-locals. Earlier it was in April when a similar demand was made when there was a scuffle between non-locals and locals over a cricket match.
Around 2500 non-local students of NIT Srinagar who had left the Valley following the unrest are now refusing to return to the campus and have been mounting pressure on the Human Resource Ministry to either shift the NIT Srinagar outside Kashmir or assign them another campus.
"We won't know whether the educational activities will resume here or not. Government needs to make efforts to ensure that non-locals feel safe here," a group of students said.
A senior official said the students had gone on semester break after taking the exams. "But then they could not come due to the unrest. So far they have not returned as classes have not resumed yet," he said.
He said the dates for registration of new semesters have also been extended. "So far no decision has been taken when the teaching will resume as it all depends on the situation. But the NIT has put the e-lecturers on its website but the practical works will only be done once students come here," he said.
The NIT was established as a Regional Engineering College in 1960, the majority of the students were from the Kashmir Valley. In 2003, REC, Srinagar, was converted into an NIT and with it the demography of the campus changed: of the estimated 3000 students enrolled, around 2500 are from outside the Valley. |
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