Assam: NIT Silchar to replace Dean, students demand written statement

SILCHAR: Uncertainty still prevailed in the NIT Silchar despite the authority on Friday had agreed to accept the demand of the agitating students to remove Prof BK Roy from the post of the Dean, Academic. The students however demanded a written statement of assurance from the authority. Earlier on Thursday night the Registrar K L Baishnab issued an written appeal to the students urging them to withdraw their agitating and not to compel the authority to declare closure of the institute for indefinite period. Meanwhile Roy, whose quarter was badly vandalised by a group of students following the suicide of their fellow student, had lodged an FIR on Monday.

Koz Buker, a fifth semester student of Silchar NIT was found hanging inside his room in hostel number seven on September 15. His fellow students alleged that Dean Academic Roy had mentally tortured him as Buker failed to clear his first semester papers. On the night the incident, the angry students brought out a rally inside the campus and attacked the quarter of Roy who was later rescued by the police at around 1.30 am.

From September 17, the students started ‘satyagraha’ demanding justice for Buker. A series of parleys between the authority and the students failed to resolve the crisis as the students struck to their demand for immediate removal of Roy from the post of Dean, Academic. Meanwhile, NIT Director Prof Dilip Kumar Baidya was out of station. On Friday he came back and met the students. He assured that Roy would be replaced very soon. He further said, no such action would be taken against the students so that their academic career might face trouble. The students listened to the Director, appreciated his approach but finally struck to their demand for a written statement.

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