TIRUCHY: At last, after a 10 day continuous strike, the students of IIIT-Srirangam, called off their protests following the peace talks conducted by officials from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development here in Tiruchy on Friday. The students withdrew their strike with the condition that they will take up their second semester exam in the new mentor institution.
As the institute is in its budding stage and also being funded by both Central and State governments in a percentage basis, it now has BIT campus as its mentor institution and the Dean of the BIT campus will be acting the Director-in-charge of IIIT.
So, the students, demanding for any central government run technical institute to mentor them like, NIT-Tiruchy or the IIT-Madras and started a strike 10 days back.
They had also informed that their strike will go on till they get a proper announcement of change in the mentor institute by the MHRD.
Following this, the MHRD sent an order by giving permission for the institution to change its mentor. However, the students claimed that the order has some anomalies like the date and new institution was not mentioned in that and carried on with their protests.
Following this, Tripti Gurha, Director, IIT's and IIIT's, MHRD visited IIIT here on Friday and held peace talks with the students.
It is said that she had promised the students that she would take issue to next level and would sort out the problem but, it would take some time. She has even asked the students to stop agitating.
"So, we called off strike but we told her that we would be writing our second semester only in the new mentor institute campus", said one of the students to Express, on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, she visited the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchy campus and held talks with the institute's management, said sources.