Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 14: Worried over loss of studies due to ongoing Kashmir turmoil for the last more than two months, Jammu students of NIT Srinagar and their parents have appealed the leaders of opposition to highlight their grievances as the Central as well as State Government were allegedly not giving an ear to them.
The aggrieved students and their parents also held a protest demonstration in Jammu and met former minister Raman Bhalla demanding alternative arrangements for their smooth studies or shifting of the NIT campus outside Kashmir valley for a permanent solution.
Expressing his serious concern over the loss of academics of the NIT students, Raman Bhalla immediately rang up Chief Secretary B R Sharma and other senior concerned officers seeking emergency arrangements to ensure that the students may not suffer. He also lambasted the ruling BJP and its minister for their silence over such a serious issue concerning the future of Jammu students.
The aggrieved students and their parents have also written to Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha seeking his personal intervention to press the Government for taking remedial measures and continuous studies of the students.
“We the students’ of NIT Srinagar and their parents approach your good self and would like to draw your kind attention towards the crisis prevailing in the Valley for the past two months since Burhan’s encounter. Sir, the situation is so critical that it is not possible to send our children to the Valley when most of the areas in the Kashmir region are under curfew. Besides, one thing is very clear that our Respected Prime Minister, Respected Home Minister and Respected CM of J&K Mehbooba Mufti are totally ignoring the plight of the students “sufferings while their studies are affected and their careers are at stake. Do the Central or the State Government have any idea on the working of the institution? Are the students safe or not?” reads the memorandum, forwarded to Ghulam Nabi Azad.
The aggrieved students also explained that due to the prevailing situation, not even a single company was daring to visit the campus for placements. “Not even companies like Infosys or TCS, which visit even third grade colleges of the country. The big question is the security in Valley at this time and therefore all those companies, which used to visit till last year, have refused to conduct campus placement this time in order to recruit students from this college. No alternative solution has been provided by the institute for the same till time,” they explained in the memorandum.
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