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TISS students protest against minister,
boycott convocation
Wednesday May 11, 2011 05:10:15 PM, IANS
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Mumbai:
Nearly 30 graduating students of the prestigious Tata Institute of
Social Sciences (TISS) protested against Union Minister for
Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh here Wednesday over proposed
nuclear power projects and boycotted their annual convocation
ceremony where the minister was the chief guest.
The students - some carrying placards, others sporting
yellow-and-black t-shirts with anti-nuke slogans, several more
sporting black bands - greeted the minister by raising slogans
when he arrived at the TISS Deonar Campus to deliver the
convocation address Wednesday afternoon.
"We are protesting against the 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power
Project in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and other mega-projects in
Orissa and Jharkhand. Thousands of common people are being
displaced or uprooted there," said Pranab Doley, an organiser of
the protest.
He said that since the student community is feeling strongly about
these huge developmental projects, they decided to boycott their
own convocation ceremony in which they would have been presented
their coveted degree certificates at the hands of the minister.
"It is our own ceremony, organised for us. It is a
once-in-a-lifetime occasion, but we decided to forfeit it in the
larger interests of the people of the country," Doley told IANS.
Anticipating protests, the police had deployed tight security
outside the venue, but the students were allowed to protest
peacefully.
When some of them attempted to get too close to the minister, the
security personnel stopped them, but the minister waved them away
and interacted with the students.
Later, Jairam Ramesh went inside the auditorium for the
convocation ceremony even while the graduating batch, which
included half a dozen girls, remained outside.
After the function, Doley said the students would submit a
memorandum to the minister and also quiz him on the various
controversial projects coming up around the country.
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