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Students stir against regional bias
Amarnath Tewary | Patna
Students of the newly-established Chandra-gupta Institute of Management, Patna are a worried lot. A year after the institute was established; students of the institute hit the streets on Tuesday demanding removal of the director V Mukunddas for using derogatory remarks against the students from Bihar and threatening them of ruining their career.
On the initiative of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Chandragupta Institute of Management, Patna (CIMP) was established on July 29, 208 with much fanfare and high aspirations. It was a ‘dream project’ of Nitish Kumar. The CM had said while inaugurating that the management institute would be guided by India’s top Management institute, IIM, Ahemdabad.
Students, both from and outside Bihar, took admission in a hope of a better career options and opportunities. Most of them took admission leaving their jobs in reputed private and Government services.
There were 48 students in the first batch of the institute, who are now in the second year of their course. However, soon the students started facing all sorts of constraints, lack of basic facilities and indifferent attitudes of the institute.
“When we complained about our problem, institute director V Mukunddas not only called us ‘bloody Biharis’ but also threatened of ruining our career,” said a student.
Harassed and humiliated with the dictatorial attitude of the institute director, the students on June 27 submitted a petition in the Chief Minister’s Office demanding removal of the director. Despite several attempts, authorities in the institute could not be contacted.
In their six-page petition, the students said that their career is at stake. There are enough evidences to corroborate that we are going nowhere and our career is being spoiled,” said students in their petition.
Protesting students also said that the individuals who worked very hard for the development of the institute have either quit or were forced to quit within a year. The list of persons they cited as are, Maitreyee Kollegal, Mr Amitabh Deshmukh, Kaushalendra, Irfan Alam, Hemand Pandhani and Pawan Kumar.
“All these people have either quit or were forced to quit because of the ill-treatment meted out to them by the college authorities,” said the students in their petition. “He addressed us with phrases like ‘Bloody Biharis’, ‘Typical Biharis’ and many other such phrases,” said a student Abhishek Kumar.
Making reference to the deteriorating standard of the CIMP, the harassed students also said that when the college started working in 2008, it managed to attract around 600 applicants for admission but in the second year it could only attract around 300 applications out of which 180 were called for interview and finally out of 180 only 90 turned up for the interview. Out of chosen 58 students only 38 finally joined the college.”
Now, the Chief Minister and all those concerned with the institute and had considered it as a “dream project” could well make out where and how this institute is heading for, told the visibly upset students to The Pioneer.
“Our only demand is to remove the director and appoint a new one so that the institute and our career are not at stake,” they said.
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