NIT Sikkim students continue protest for permanent campus

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 4: The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim students have decided to continue with their protest demanding written assurance from the Centre and state government to set up the permanent campus of the institute. The institute was established in 2010 and since then it has been functioning out of a temporary campus located at Rabongla, 120km from state capital Gangtok.

For over a month, the NIT Sikkim students have been boycotting classes to protest the delay in the construction of the permanent campus. The students are also complaining of the lack of facilities in the existing temporary campus.

The students have decided to continue to boycott classes till they get a written assurance from the State Human Resources Development department and the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development.

On the other hand, Principal Secretary of state HRD department, G. P. Upadhyaya has appealed to the students to resume their classes. He has said that Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar had promised to send an empowered committee to finalise the site for the campus and release construction funds at the earliest.

Director of NIT Sikkim Mahesh Govil has also appealed to students to call off their protest and resume classes.