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Srinagar NIT row: Protesting students demand action against police
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New Delhi, Apr 6 (IBNS): With the tension at NIT Srinagar campus escalating, a student representative on Wednesday told visiting officials from the Centre's education ministry that they want the institute shifted out of the city, media reports said.
He said that the protesting students want action to be taken against policemen who lathicharged student protesters late on Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, assuring parents that their children are safe, Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar on Wednesday said the ongoing tension in NIT Srinagar campus is an 'administrative issue and not the security issue'.
He said the state government is taking all the requisite measures to restore normal academic activity at the campus.
“I assure the parents of the students of NIT Srinagar that their wards are safe and the state government is taking all the measures to normalize the situation at the campus,” Akhtar told reporters.
He said it is not a local versus non-local issue as is being projected by some sections of the media but just an administrative issue which is being sorted out.
He said on the request of the Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Kumar Singh, Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani sent a team of HRD Ministry to the campus to take stock of the situation.
Akhtar said a senior police officer is monitoring the situation and normalcy would be restored on the campus soon.
“I assure the students and their parents that a cordial atmosphere will return to the NIT campus soon and the classes would resume at the earliest,” he said.
He urged the students not to resort to any violence and instead focus on their studies.
He also urged the civil society to rise to the occasion and help in restoring normalcy at the campus.
“The present discordant situation can dent the image of the campus and both the local and the non local students at the NIT should not only ensure well-being of each other, but also uphold the reputation of this premiere institution,” he said.
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has assured her that the students at the NIT campus, which has witnessed unrest in the past few hours, are safe.
"Mehbooba Mufti has assured me that all students are safe in the campus," Irani told media.
Earlier it was reported that Jammu and Kashmir's NIT Srinagar campus witnessed unrest on Tuesday as police allegedly lathi-charged some students in the campus.
Several students have been reportedly injured.
Outstation students expressed sense of insecurity and tried to leave the campus on Tuesday, reports said.
Following a confrontation, police resorted to lathi-charge.
CRPF personnel have been deployed in the campus.
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