Members of Pragatisheel Jan Manch and the traders based in Srinagar Garhwal staged a joint demonstration on Monday in support of their demand of housing the permanent campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Sumari village. Notably, the villagers of Sumari had given land free for housing the institute in the village. The rally started from Srinagar Gola market and after snaking through many roads, it ended at the NIT Srinagar campus. An effigy of NIT administration was torched there too. The Srinagar market remained shuttered and all the educational institutions were closed too. A similar rally was taken out at Bhagtinaya area of Srinagar with the same demand.
The sit-in by Pragtisheel Jan Manch has been continuing since June 15. They said that their stir would continue till the administration starts construction of the permanent NIT campus in Sumari village on the land donated by the villagers.