IIIT Basara students protest, demand appointment of regular VC

Over 4,000 students of IIIT, Basar, on Monday protested demanding the State government to fulfill their demands. The students boycotted the classes and urged Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao to visit the college and resolve their problems.

The protesting students told the in-charge Vice-Chancellor of the college A Ashok and Administrative officer, Venkat Swamy, that they would continue their protest until KTR visits their campus and resolve all the issues. Their demands include appointing a regular vice-chancellor, whose post is vacant for the last two years, filling of vacant faculty posts, water shortage issue and insufficient books in the library. They stage a demonstration in front of the administrative building.

Though in-charge vice chancellor tried to calm down the agitating students, they refused to budge. Meanwhile, Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students organisation leaders, who tried to enter the campus to extend their support to the agitating students were taken into custody.