IIIT-Basar agitation enters sixth day

During their silent protest on Sunday, the agitating students at IIIT-Basar sat in Yoga postures to promote it on the occasion of International ‘Yoga Day’ that is falling on June 21. The student’s agitation has entered the sixth day on Sunday which started on June 14.

The students continued their protest carrying umbrellas when it rained at night at around 8 pm. However, many students got drenched in the rain as there was not sufficient number of umbrellas.

A girl student leader said the agitating students were not having food in time and it was impacting their health, adding that keeping this in view, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao must visit their campus and resolve their long-pending demands.

The students governing council of Basar IIIT expressed its worry over PUC 1 and 2 year students who were being given outpasses without a proper guardian or parent since the students filled the form where there was a column that says ‘university is not responsible for students safety outside the campus’. The student governing council said this was happening when the present situation outside was very different due to the issue of anti-Agnipath protests, and added that it was not a good time to send out students without guardians.

The students said there was a vice-chancellor at Basar IIIT from 2008 to 2014 and later the post was ‘removed’ by making an amendment to the Act of RGUKT and it happened after the formation of Telangana state.

The state government was not appointing a regular VC, but instead appointed a director, they said.