HRD team to take stock of situation in NIT Srinagar

Srinagar- A day after tension erupt in National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, a two-member team of union human resource development ministry (HRD) will arrive here on Wednesday to assess the situation in the campus.

“A two-member team of HRD ministry is arriving on Wednesday to take stock of the situation in NIT Srinagar where a group of non-local students clashed with police on Tuesday,” a senior administrative official told IANS here.

The official said the situation in the campus was calm and no untoward incident was reported during the night.

Paramilitary central reserve police force (CRPF) was deployed inside the campus on Tuesday evening after a group of students clashed with the police.

Non-local students shouting slogans had tried to take to the road when police intercepted their march at the main gate of the campus.

Protesting students also tried to rough up a senior police official who advised them not to take to the roads as that could result in a law and order situation.

Earlier tension gripped the NIT Srinagar after a group of students clashed with police on Tuesday.

“A group of NIT students, all of them non-locals, marched to the gates of the institute shouting slogans,” a police officer said.

“A senior police officer advised them not to go out of the campus as that could result in a law and order problem. The students refused to listen and some of them manhandled the officer,” he said.

He said police resorted to a baton charge to disperse the students, in which seven of them sustained minor injuries and were given first aid inside the campus.

No one was hospitalized as the injuries were minor, the police officer added.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was deployed later in the night as a precautionary measure to prevent any escalation of tension, the officer said.

The NIT was closed by the authorities on March 31 following a row during the India-West Indies World T20 cricket match. The institute resumed normal functioning on Tuesday.