09/04/2018
It is unfortunate that despite being so old the atmosphere at IIEST has become so much anti-student. The following is one of such cases where students always suffer!
Plea by a fellow student to fight against discrimination and harassment by the faculty -
"Dear friends,
My name is A. John, a student of IIEST, Shibpur, pursuing my B.Arch in the Department of Architecture and Town Planning. I am from Manipur. I wish to share my grievances and discrimination that I have suffered ever since I joined this institute in 2013.
• I faced discrimination regarding my admission in this institute. One of my department Professor even went to the extent of claiming that I joined this college through cheating. I went to the then HOD for help who told me to leave the college.
• In my 4th semester (2015), after we had written the mid semester exams, I was handed my 3rd semester marksheet, where I came to know that I had failed in a sessional paper which came as a shock to me. We approached the authority and the professor-in-charge accepted his negligence and the failure was removed, but at the cost of more than a month of our time and mental depression.
• In the same semester (2015), the same professor detained 4 of us in his sessional subject for submitting our assignment merely 5 mins late the same day. We approached the authority and it was ruled in our favour after we missed 4 of our exams while running around the university authorities to solve this issue. We appeared for one exam that remained. We approached the authority to allow us to appear for the exams which we missed without our fault, but we were denied of the request which eventually led us to lose a year.
• In my fifth semester (2016), me and my classmate from Manipur were given year lag because of biased evaluation in a sessional paper. When I went on to ask for my mark sheet and attendance sheet, I was called by one of my teacher to say that I will hamper the student-teacher relationship by doing so. I was shocked, how my desire to know my attendance and marks was misinterpreted as a step to hamper the student-teacher relationship. I was even told by my friends that some professor made a statement in front of them that students of northeast can be given year lag and they won't do anything but if it is given to the Bengali students then they will create a lot of problems in the department.
• I had written and submitted my grievances to the authority on Feb 10th, 2017. It has been more than a year and a conclusive response is still awaited.
• I approached the North East Support Centre and Helpline (Delhi), as a result of which, an inquiry committee was formed on May 17th2017. I appeared before the committee to give my statement on June 12th 2017. Though a student representative (General Secretary, Student Senate) was in the committee, he was not allowed to be present during meetings of the inquiry committee and was instructed to sit outside for the duration of the meeting which was also biased.
• I have submitted my appeal to the committee on July 17th 2017 and September 3rd 2017 for the report and submitted another appeal to the Director, IIEST-Shibpur, on March 6th 2018 but to no avail. The authority have turned a blind eye to my case. I have even approached the grievances section of MHRD, the PMO via mail but response is awaited.
I request you to kindly support me in my fight for justice."
- An open letter by Alao John
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