IIT-D to review SC/ST students' expulsion

CASTE CAULDRON: SC/ST Commission hauls up IIT-D over expulsion of 12 SC students.

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New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has asked Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi to review the expulsion 12 undergraduate students belonging to SC category.

IIT-Delhi will send a report on the review back to the commission in two weeks.

Earlier, on Tuesday morning the 12 expelled students met the Chairman of the SC/ST Commission Buta Singh.

The Director of IIT-Delhi Prof Surendra Prasad was also present in the meeting. He had been summoned by the commission on Monday and was asked to explain why the students were expelled.

All the expelled students claim that they have been discriminated against as they belong to the SC community.

They say that instead of the extra coaching that they were to receive, they were diverted to extra curricular activities.

A student also alleged that a professor at the institute told him said he wasn't doing well in his studies because he was from the SC/ST category.

The institute’s Deputy Director, Prof Bijendra Jain, had rejected the allegations and insisted that the students were asked to leave solely because of their poor performance.

"If certain students cannot perform then we cannot have them," said Jain

Interestingly, the institute has never asked so many students to leave because of poor performance.

Jain said IIT-Delhi does its best to help all students in their studies. "Before they enter IIT-Delhi, SC/ST students receive coaching in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. At the end of every semester and sometimes in the middle of semesters we monitor the progress of all students."