South Asian University college students go on starvation strike, demand scholarship hike
By PTI
NEW DELHI: A bunch of scholars of South Asian University are sitting on an indefinite starvation strike to press for a hike of their scholarships, a college students’ physique mentioned.
The starvation strike commenced on November 7 after the administration didn’t reply to their calls for, the varsity’s General Body of Students mentioned.
Despite college students falling sick and collapsing, the administration has refused to provoke dialogue, it alleged.
The college students have been demanding a rise in MA college students’ stipend to Rs 7,000, paid extension to the Covid-affected PhD batch, guaranteeing parity of stipend paid to PhD students with that beneath the Junior Research Fellowship and pupil illustration within the University Complaints’ Committee.
“From November 1, the students have occupied the fourth floor — outside the Acting President’s Office — in an indefinite sit-in. The indefinite hunger strike commenced on November 7,” the coed physique mentioned in a press release.
Administration officers couldn’t be reached for remark.
The college students have routinely held demonstrations to press for his or her calls for since October 13.
NEW DELHI: A bunch of scholars of South Asian University are sitting on an indefinite starvation strike to press for a hike of their scholarships, a college students’ physique mentioned.
The starvation strike commenced on November 7 after the administration didn’t reply to their calls for, the varsity’s General Body of Students mentioned.
Despite college students falling sick and collapsing, the administration has refused to provoke dialogue, it alleged.
The college students have been demanding a rise in MA college students’ stipend to Rs 7,000, paid extension to the Covid-affected PhD batch, guaranteeing parity of stipend paid to PhD students with that beneath the Junior Research Fellowship and pupil illustration within the University Complaints’ Committee.
“From November 1, the students have occupied the fourth floor — outside the Acting President’s Office — in an indefinite sit-in. The indefinite hunger strike commenced on November 7,” the coed physique mentioned in a press release.
Administration officers couldn’t be reached for remark.
The college students have routinely held demonstrations to press for his or her calls for since October 13.
