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Student group seeks resignation of IIT Bombay director after death of pupil

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Mumbai: A student collective at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the premier institute’s director in the backdrop of alleged suicide by a first-year Dalit student and allegations he was facing caste discrimination.
The Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) also sought that a report of the SC/ST Cell of the IIT Bombay, which it claimed talks about lack of institutional support for Dalit and tribal students in the campus, be made public.
The student, Darshan Solanki (18), died allegedly after jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the premier institute on Sunday. Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad, was a first-year student of BTech (Chemical).
The IIT Bombay on Tuesday rejected charges of caste bias in the institute and said initial inputs from the deceased’s friends suggested there was no discrimination.
In a statement, the APPSC, a student body within the campus, said, “We demand resignation of the institute director (Prof Subhasis Chaudhuri) in the light of these new facts and hope the administration will start the much needed learning process, at least now. Data prepared by the SC/ST Cell points towards the lack of institutional support for SC/ST students at the IIT B.”
The student body alleged the IIT-B administration has not appointed any SC/ST counsellors even after its complaints and said this shows blatant disregards towards the pupils.
“Despite all the detailed testimonies and data which is available with the institute, the director kept reiterating that ‘there is no discrimination’ on the campus. We demand his resignation,” the statement said.
The APPSC said past reports of the SC/ST Cell as well as others be made public.

“We want the administration to stop hiding the reports of the surveys conducted by the SC/ST Cell as well as others, and release them for public discussion as soon as possible. The structural issues at the IIT B faced by the students have been pointed out time and again to the administration in the last several years. Even the surveys conducted by the SC/ST Cell, and an open house on caste conducted last year detailed the kind of everyday discrimination that our students face on campus,” the statement said.
However, the institute on Tuesday said it takes utmost precautions to make the campus as inclusive as possible and it has a zero tolerance for any discrimination by faculty.
Caste identity is never disclosed to any one (whether students or faculty) once the admission is done and the institute sensitises students to not seek proxy information such as ranks in entrance exams, it said in a statement.
The institute gives strong warnings against discrimination right from the time students enter the IIT campus. While no steps can be 100 per cent effective, discrimination by students, if at all it occurs, is an exception, the statement said.
The IIT Bombay has an SC/ST Cell which students can approach in case they face any issues, including discrimination. There have been very few complaints to the cell, whether against faculty or other students, over the past many years, and only one case was found to have substance and strict action has been taken, it said in the statement.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 15, 2023
Visva Bharati student gets show-cause notice for backing Amartya Sen on social media

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Kolkata: Visva Bharati university authorities have issued a show-cause notice to one of its students after the latter supported Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on social media over the current row where the university Vice Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty has accused the economist of unauthorised occupation of the university land in excess of his legal entitlement.
The student, Somanath Sou, is an active member of the CPI(M)’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI). Recently he made a post on social media condemning the attitude of the university authorities towards Sen in the current row.
He said in his post that this is nothing but unnecessarily harassing the globally acclaimed educationist and economist. According to him, certain elements are constantly advising the vice-chancellor that by harassing Sen he would get the support of the BJP.
According to Sou, from the land records it is clear that Sen is legally entitled to the entire land including the 13 decimals of land which the university authorities claim to be held by him beyond his legal entitlement. “The real truth must be revealed since in this process an aged and globally acclaimed educationist is being harassed unnecessarily. The university authorities should come out with papers in support of their baseless claims,” he wrote in his social media post.
Soon after that he was slapped with the show-cause asking him why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for being vocal against the university despite being a student there. In the notice Sou has been warned of strong disciplinary action if he repeats a similar action in the future.
On February 11, Sen’s advocate issued a legal notice to the university authorities asking the latter to tender a public apology for their derogatory comments in connection with the continuing row over 13 decimals of land occupied by him. “The university authorities should apologise for making such derogatory comments. Else appropriate legal action will be taken,” said Sen’s counsel Gorachand Chakroborty.
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February 14, 2023
IIT-B condoles death of Dalit student, orders probe

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Mumbai: The IIT-Bombay on Monday condoled the death by suicide of B.Tech. First Year Dalit student, Darshan Solanki, terming it as “a great loss to the family and to the IITB community.
In its first reaction, the IIT-B said: “It is unfortunate that such a loss could not be prevented despite the efforts of the Institute and Student Mentors to support our students. A committee has been constituted to investigate the incident.”
The IIT-B held a condolence meeting and observed two minutes of silence in memory of the departed soul, said a spokesperson.
In a shocking incident, Solanki, 18, jumped to his death from the 7th floor of his hostel building in the Powai Campus on Sunday afternoon, after his first semester exams for the Chemical Engineering course a day earlier.
According to certain reports, Solanki reportedly did not heed warning shouts from other co-students who noticed him just before he took the plunge to death.
“While we cannot change what has already happened, we will further increase our efforts to prevent such events in future. We pray that his family gets the strength to bear this loss. The Institute is with his family at this difficult time. We deeply mourn the tragic loss of Darshan’s life,” said the IIT-B.
Earlier on Monday, a student group, the Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle-IITB had pointed fingers at the IIT-B for alleged discrimination prevalent on the Powai Campus against students from reserved categories, various lapses on the part of the management to address their distress, etc., and sought redressal.

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February 13, 2023
UP: School principal thrashes Dalit student for drinking water from bottle

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Bijnor: A Class 11 student was allegedly beaten up by his school principal after he drank water from a bottle kept on a table, a police official said on Monday.
According to the complaint lodged by the Dalit student, the alleged incident happened during the farewell ceremony of Class 12 students on Sunday, Additional Superintendent of Police Ram Arj said.
The student drank water from a bottle kept on a table, following which the principal Yogendra Kumar and his brothers allegedly thrashed and hurled abuses at him, Arj said.
A case has been registered against seven persons, including the principal, under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the matter is being probed by a circle officer, he said.
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February 13, 2023
IIT Bombay student jumps to his death from hostel building

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Mumbai: An 18-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, located in Powai area, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the campus on Sunday, police said.
The deceased, who hailed from Ahmedabad, was a first-year student of the B.Tech (Chemical) course.
The incident came to light after security guards on the campus spotted the youth lying in a pool of blood, a police official said.
He said the deceased had not left any suicide note and prima facie he jumped from the refuge areas of the hostel building.
“Based on the primary information, we have registered a case of accidental death. Further investigation is underway,” said senior police inspector Budhan Sawant.
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February 12, 2023
Dalit student beaten up in Gujarat, four booked

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Rajkot: A Dalit student in Gujarat’s Rajkot alleged that his classmates beat him because of his caste and a case has been filed against four students, police said on Saturday.
Darshit Makwana, a student of Information Technology at the Marwadi University, in his complaint at the Kuvadva police station on Friday, said that on Thursday afternoon, Suraj Narodia, Nandkumar Gami, Purav, and one unknown student kicked him and beat him ruthlessly, due to which he almost fell unconscious, and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Makwana also said that six months ago, the accused had taunted him that because he is from a scheduled caste, he obtained free admission in the college, otherwise, he is not financially sound to study there.
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February 11, 2023
Karnataka: School marks UKG student ‘fail’, govt seeks clarification

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Bengaluru: A private school in Bengaluru has failed a six-year-old UKG student following which the state education department has sought clarification.
The parents and educationists have slammed the school management for their insensitive approach toward the child.
The incident took place at the Saint Joseph Chaminade Academy, located in Deepahalli in Anekal town on the outskirts of Bengaluru. The marks card issued to the girl child mentions that she has failed. It showed that in one of the subjects Nandini scored five marks out of 40.
BJP MLA and former Education Minister S Suresh Kumar slammed the school management. “What is this so-called institution up to regarding the child? I want to visit this ‘wonderful’ school once,” he said.
He had also directed the authorities to take action in this regard. The law says that students between one and ninth standard should not be failed. The management had shown utter negligence in following this rule.
On the other hand, the parents of the child have also slammed the school. “Declaring the result of a six-year-old child is not correct and it will make the child suffer,” Manoj Badal, father of the child stated.
The school management had clarified that the institution has not declared anyone to fail. The marks card were related to a unit test. The school uses a mobile application for the results. The pass marks and fail marks are set. The matter has been brought to the notice of the parents and the software company has already been consulted for rectification.
Block Education Officer from Anekal Jayalakshmi has issued a notice to the school and sought clarification over the issue. The department has asked the school to submit written clarification by Thursday, failing which the permission to the school would be withdrawn, the notice warned.

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February 9, 2023
Indian student in US battling for life after car accident

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New York: An Indian student is battling for life after a car in which she was travelling went out of control and flipped due to sleet on the road near the US state of Arkansas.
Sree Likitha Pinnam, a computer science student at Wichita State University in Kansas, was traveling with her friends on the night of January 30 when the accident took place on a highway, some 15 minutes away from Bentonville, Arkansas.
“The car flipped twice, and her head was severely injured. She became unconscious,” according to a GoFundMe Page set up for Pinnam by her sister.
A driver on the road noticed Pinnam and her friends, who suffered minor injuries.
He took them to the Mercy Hospital in Northwest Arkansas, US, where the Indian student Pinnam was rushed to the emergency ward.
Pinnam is diagnosed with a very severe traumatic brain injury that includes diffuse axonal injury, anoxic brain injury and multiple small bleeds in her brain, according to the GoFundMe Page.
Doctors treating Pinnam said her condition is critical, and she is on a ventilator, adding that she is not responding to the treatment for the past few days.
“Doctors are not able to predict when they can discharge her, as her condition depends on her response, but they estimate it can take months or even years to recover,” the fundraising page said, requesting support for Pinnam’s treatment.

So far, the page has raised $99,659 of the $150,000 goal.
Authorities cited icy conditions across the southern plains as a factor in a fatal crash in Arkansas.
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February 9, 2023
Telangana student killed in US as gun goes off accidentally

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Hyderabad: A student from Telangana was killed in the US when a gun he was holding went off accidentally, as per his family here.
Mahankali Akhil Sai, 25, from Khammam district lost his life in the incident that occurred at Auburn in Alabama state on Monday night (local time).
Sai had gone to the US about 13 months ago and was studying MS at Auburn University. He was also doing a part-time job at a nearby gas station.
According to information reaching his family, he took the gun of a security guard and was having a close look by holding it in his hands when it went off accidentally. The bullet hit him in his head. The gas station staff rushed him to a hospital, where he succumbed.
The youth was hailing from Madhira town in Khammam district. His family was shocked on receiving the information.
The family has requested the Indian government to help in bringing the body home.
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February 7, 2023
Telangana: Class 10th student ends life in Karimnagar

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Hyderabad: A girl, enrolled as a student of class 10, ended her life by suicide on Monday after her parents scolded her for scoring fewer marks in her exams.
According to the police, the deceased Arelli Jagruthi,16, a student in a private school in Jammikunta town was found hanging in her home in Jammikunta on Monday while her family had gone out.
Police suspect the student was suffering from depression over her parent’s disappointment which led to her resorting to the extreme step.
A case has been registered by the police who initiated a probe into the matter based on a complaint lodged by the family.
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February 6, 2023