The Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) on Tuesday suspended all the remaining programmes that were to be performed on the concluding day of Technosearch-2013, here following the death of a senior student of the institution.
The death of Ritesh Vyas, training placement officer (TPO) of civil department of MANIT was declared by the doctors of Chirayu Hospital, where Vyas had been treating after he met a road accident on Sunday.
Earlier, doctors had said that Ritesh had suffered internal head injuries in the accident. Neurologists at Chirayu Hospital also declared him brain dead on Monday night and dead on Tuesday m orning.
Ritesh was hailed from Allahabad and was pursuing his studies at MANIT.
All the students of MANIT including the faculty members and other participants of Technosearch-2013 were informed about the incident and the events of the concluding day were called off.
While talking to The Pioneer, the Media Officer of MANIT Sonika Rajput while sharing the unfortunate incident said that they had received the information in the morning and since he was one of the important members of the event the institution has decided to call off all the remaining programmes.
She further expressed her grief on the demise of Ritesh Vyas.
She further said that the finales of some events were left to be conducted but the results would be declared on the performances of the first two days.
Notably, Technosearch was the central India’s largest technical fest and in the first two days it received an overwhelming response by receiving over 3500 registrations from the colleges across the country.
There were various events that were held in the two days of the Technosearch-2013 and the felicitation ceremony of the competitions would be organized after a week.