Morung Express News
Dimapur | October 9
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Nagaland today managed to resolve a students’ fight that was promising to take an ugly turn.
“11 first year students got into a fight on Friday, October 5. They have, however, owned up to their mistakes and been penalized with a week-long academic expulsion from hostel and classes,” said NIT Nagaland Registrar, Binod Doley while speaking to The Morung Express.
Two other senior students, he informed, have also been penalized by the Institute’s disciplinary committee—one with a complete semester expulsion from the hostel and another with a strict warning—for “misbehaving with the committee and instigating,” said Doley.
This is the third time this semester that such a fight has broken out among students at NIT Nagaland, allegedly along ‘local-nonlocal’ lines. Some students of NIT Nagaland began an agitation on Monday morning demanding that central security forces, particularly the Central Industrial Security Forces, be deployed on campus to ensure their safety.
“The fight started between locals and non-locals but took an ugly turn because the administration was unable to resolve the issues over the past few months,” said an NIT student from outside Nagaland on the condition of anonymity. While the student maintained that they had no desire to militarize the campus with central security forces, the students were hoping their presence would work as a “deterrent” to avoid such incidents.
Thankfully, “We cannot allow any police or security forces on our small campus with 500 students on it. We will ensure the safety of students,” maintained the NIT Nagaland Registrar.
To resolve issues of such nature, the NIT will also set up a coordination committee consisting of students and the administration since the Institute does not allow unionizing of students to address such issues either.
A faculty of NIT maintained that the fight was more of a scuffle among students that certainly does not need the intervention of central security forces. The Institute has a 50-50 ratio of students from inside and outside Nagaland. “We will address issues of discrimination, if any,” affirmed the faculty member.
