IIT Kanpur must withdraw the expulsion order of students and ensure academic programme motivates students to learn and engage in engineering-related socially-useful work

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It is a shame that Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has decided to expel 38 students belonging mostly to Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) category. While the general thinking of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is in the direction of relaxing the examination system so that a more conducive learning atmosphere can be created for students, it appears that IIT Kanpur has yet to come out of the paradigm in which academic performance is used to penalize students. Suicides among students are not very uncommon in IIT Kanpur and presently an unusually high number of students are receiving psychological counselling. The failure is not that of students but that of IIT system.

IIT Kanpur must withdraw the expulsion order of students and revamp its system so that the academic programme motivates students to learn and engage in engineering-related socially-useful work rather than go after non-engineering consumerist oriented jobs which are totally non-productive.

Dr Sandeep Pandey
Former faculty member, IIT Kanpur and
former member, Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India

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    • National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
  • somesh agnihotri
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    • it shows fassist attitute of IIT
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    • Yes. The expulsion should be withdrawn.
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    • must raise voice
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    • IIT must be inclusive and socially relevant
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    • It is really shameful on part of the IIT administration that they are practising what is known as hidden apartheid.
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  • Dr. Bachchu Lal Balmiki, Ph.D.
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    • This is another way to cause atrocities on Dalits and spoil the future of students. I am strongly against it. These orders must be taken back.
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    • A mass expulsion of students reflects badly on the ability of the IIT to bring the SC students at par with the general caste students.
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    • In 2008, 20 students were expelled from Delhi IIT. Of these, 12 belonged to the SC category, while the rest (40\%) were ordinary students. Are non-SC/ST ordinary students no longer the citizens of India? Why are the Pandeys/Darapuris and media refusing to raise their vocie against the expulsion of ordinary class students? It is surprising that Dr Pandey and his ilk are supporting these concocted issues while refusing to oppose their own caste-based disenfranchisement.
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    • We in NCDHR have been with the students in their demands since the IIT, Delhi Students have been terminated in 2008. We stood with the students and supported their efforts in re-entry through court order, including several representations to the ministry. We welcome Dr. Sandeep Pandey's effort in this and will support this campaign fully. We need to coordinate this struggle and contact all other students who may be facing this type of harassment in other IITs or IIMs or other so called institutions of excellence which may be similarly crushing the emerging Dalit talent. IIT authority must recognise this major discrimination and exclusion they are causing which is a crime against SC/ST students.
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