A group of outstation students at Srinagar’s National Institute of Technology have asked the government to move them out of the strife-torn Valley with more than 2,600 pupils who left Kashmir after violence broke out in July not returning to campus.
Only 180 of the 2,800 students are present on campus that has been locked down since curfew was clamped across Kashmir following the July 8 killing of top militant Burhan Wani
Students from outside Kashmir say they don’t find the city safe to return and told the administration that their parents aren’t willing to send them back to the institute. The campus was also in the news earlier this year after a scuffle between local and outstation students over a nationalism row involving a cricket match.
The pupils say they have already lost two semesters and anymore time lost will jeopardize their careers. They have written to the Union human resource development ministry, requesting that either they be put in another campus outside Kashmir or the NIT be shifted out of Srinagar.