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IIT-K faculty unhappy with reservation
PROFESSORS AT the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) have lost all faith in the people?s representatives who once elected to Parliament, forget the voters and go ahead with policies that best suit their interests. While talking to HT, the professors expressed their displeasure on the issue and said, ?We know our opposition to the reservation will not yield any result as we do not have any compelling force like the medicos.
PROFESSORS AT the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) have lost all faith in the people’s representatives who once elected to Parliament, forget the voters and go ahead with policies that best suit their interests.
While talking to HT, the professors expressed their displeasure on the issue and said, “We know our opposition to the reservation will not yield any result as we do not have any compelling force like the medicos.
Students of the IIT and teachers here can not affect any public utility service by resorting to agitations. However, we will keep registering our opposition to the reservation policy in the wider interest of the people of this country.”
Supporting the views of the professors, a noted professor of Physics at the IIT-K, Dr HC Varma, said “The government will not bend nor the youths will drop the issue.
In fact by continuing the agitation, we want to give a message to the society that they should strive hard for creating a casteless and classless society. With rise in the literacy rate, only very few people will support reservation.”
Dr Varma said that during the short span of agitation against reservation it was proved that majority of citizens did not favour it. Even the students belonging to OBC opposed it, saying that they did not want to be identified as users of crutches to attain excellence in life.
About 95 per cent members of the alumni cell in Kanpur extended their support to the anti-reservation stir and over 2500 students out of 3500 students at the IIT-K expressed their solidarity with the anti-reservationists.
Another professor Dr Rajiv Sinha felt that they had no power to compel the government but they could definitely make the government realise that reservation policy would divide the society and adversely affect the reputation of IITs in the world. Granting reservation without evaluating its effects in the past 50 years was not justified, he added.
