#JusticeforDarshanSolanki: IIT Bombay students call for nationwide candle-march tomorrow
Anu Parthiban | February 18, 2023 | 08:10 PM IST | 1 min read
IIT-B APPSC requested students to hold candle-march in their respective colleges and asked them to have an open dialogue about discrimination on campuses..
NEW DELHI: The students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have called for a nation-wide candlelight march tomorrow demanding justice for the first-year student Darshan Solanki, who recently died by jumping off the hostel building.
The Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) in a statement expressed their full support for the candle-march and appealed to the student community across the country to participate in this call.
“Let Us Be United to Ensure Justice for Darshan. We fully support the call for a nationwide candle march on 19th February given by Darshan’s family to ensure justice is made in this case,” the APPSC tweeted.
Requesting students to hold candle-march in their respective colleges, the students group said: “Let us all have an open dialogue about discrimination on campuses. Let us all make our campuses more inclusive and democratic.”
The IIT Bombay director Subhasis Chaudhuri recently said that the institute is working towards changing its BTech curriculum to reduce stress for students and invited suggestions to prevent such incidents from happening. He also informed that the police and the institute are investigating the IIT Bombay student death.
However, after two students died by suicide in IIT Madras, NIT Calicut and another attempted suicide at IIT-M, many students group have voiced against the caste discrimination prevailing in the top institutes of the country.
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