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NIT rejects proposal to suspend students over
Facebook post
Saturday March 30, 2013 05:44:19 PM,
IANS
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Agartala:
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) here has rejected the
proposal of its disciplinary panel to suspend 57 students for six
months over a comment on Facebook against a girls' hostel
superintendent, officials said here Saturday.
"The NIT authority following the protest of the guardians,
students and some NGOs, has disallowed a disciplinary committee's
proposal to suspend 57 students, mostly girls, for six months
following a comment on Facebook against a hostel superintendent,"
a NIT official told reporters.
"The NIT authority have realised that it would be major punishment
to the students for a tiny fault. The students have also earlier
apologised for their comment on Facebook," the official added.
According to family members of the students, a seven-member
disciplinary committee, headed by dean, students welfare R.S.
Panua, last week proposed to suspend the students - most of them
final semester students with a month of the course left and some
also having landed jobs through campus placements - for six months
and also suggested their hostel facilities be withdrawn for an
year.
The proposed punishment came after a student equated hostel
superintendent Mahua Biswas - a close relative of institute
director P.K. Basu - with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Facebook
post and the remaining students supported the comment, said a
guardian of one of these students.
"Though the hostel superintendent was always non-cooperative and
harsh with the students, the students have apologised for their
comment on Facebook," the guardian said.
After some guardians protested the punitive action, a meeting was
held between them and college authorities.
The NIT teachers' association has also informed the matter to
Tripura government and the union human resource development
ministry on the issue.
"The HRD ministry is the appropriate authority to take apt steps
in the matter. We are also looking into the issue," Tripura Higher
Education Minister Bhanulal Saha told IANS.
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