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Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe students, who were expelled from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi last month, have now decided to take their agitation to the streets.
Seventeen of the 20 expelled students will hold a rally on Monday to protest their expulsion and to demand immediate redress. The rally, being organised along with students group Bahujan Students’ Front, will start from Ambedkar Stadium and will go to Parliament House.
“We are taking out this rally because injustice has been meted out to us. This is a clear case of injustice and discrimination based on caste lines,” one of the expelled students said.
“We have been given an assurance by Buta Singh, chairman of the SC Commission, that justice will be delivered. We also sought the intervention of the HRD Ministry, which has assured us the matter would be looked into,” he said.
The IIT had expelled 20 students last month for not meeting the minimum level required for continuation. But when the issue came into public eye and when the SC Commission intervened, the institute revoked the expulsion of three students on grounds of leniency, stating that they were only a few points short of the required 50 credits; the 17 others were short by a large margin.
The issue had raked up a controversy and for the first time in its history, the IIT witnessed students’ protests. The affected students said the review committee instituted by IIT didn’t have any external members and that the people who expelled them in the first place were reviewing their cases.
A protester said a large number of students from universities and colleges in Delhi, as well as other cities and states, would also participate: “There are students coming from Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. Apart from these, students from IIT, AIIMS, JNU, Jamia and DU will also participate to raise the issue of caste-based discrimination in the education system throughout the country.”
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