A three-member technical committee headed by the Director of Technical Education will be formed shortly to look into the complaints raised by a group of former students of Markaz Institute of Technology (MIT), Karanthur, who were allegedly offered unrecognised three-year diploma courses in various streams.
The decision to form the technical committee was taken at a meeting chaired by District Collector U.V. Jose here on Friday. Representatives of various protesting students’ organisations and the management of MIT attended the meeting.
Mr. Jose, who called the meeting after noticing the indefinite stir by the students, said the technical committee’s report would be examined at a separate meeting in the Collectorate on May 23. He also requested the students to call off the stir.
Scuffle on campus
The attempt of the police to forcefully shift two students, who were on hunger stir on the Markaz campus, to hospital ended up in an open scuffle on Friday.
Markaz Students Samara Samiti leaders alleged that the police misbehaved with their members at Karanthur when the Collector was holding a meeting to discuss the issue at the collectorate. Some of the agitating students tried to block the police vehicle in front of the campus.
The two students were later admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
