A recent report published by the NDTV, after interviewing Darshan\u2019s\nfamily, indicates that Darshan had spoken with his family about the\ncaste discrimination he had to face on the campus. Earlier, a senior\nstudent, with whom Darshan had been interacting, had also spoken about\nsuch discrimination with Darshan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s most distressing in this whole episode, is the consistent\nattempts by the administration, including the Director, to outrightly\ndeny that there is any caste discrimination on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students and organizations who are attempting to give a way for\nsurfacing of a much needed discussion about discrimination on campus,\nare being accused of harming the \u201cprestige\u201d of this \u201cpremier\u201d institute.\nThis is nothing better than killing the messenger, who is trying show\nyou the cracks lying under your own structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The systematic denial of even the right to express what they are\ngoing through, for the discriminated, by using various institutional\nmechanisms and tactics, in the name of the \u201cprestige\u201d of the institute,\nis the most cruel form of ignorance and exclusion. This systematic\ndenial of the problem, by this institute and many others in the country,\nis what keeping these problems going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not just apathy, but a monumental failure on the part of such\nadministrations of higher education institutions, to have a clear\nunderstaning of their own functioning. It\u2019s their \u201clack of competence\u201d\nand \u201clack of merit\u201d, to put it in their own language, to run institutes\nwith such diverse populations. These administrations clearly have much\nto learn. But before that, they need to come out of their blissful\nignorance and acknowledge the inadequacies in their knowledge\nsystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The structural issues faced by students have been pointed time and\nagain to the administration by us repeatedly for the last several years.\nEven the surveys conducted by the SC\/ST cell in IIT Bombay, and an open\nhouse on caste conducted last year detailed the kind of everyday\ndiscrimination that our students face on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite all the data pointing to lack of institutional support for\nSC\/ST students, the institute did not care to act on them to create any\nsuitable support mechanisms. The unwillingness to appoint SC\/ST\ncounsellors even after our complaints shows the blatant disregards\ntowards students. Discarding all these detailed testimonies and data\nwhich are available with the institute, the Director still kept\nreiterating, either blindly or deliberately, that \u201cthere is no\ndiscrimination\u201d in the campus. We want the administration to stop hiding\nthe the reports of the surveys, conducted by the SC ST Cell as well as\nothers, and release them for public discussion as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We demand resignation of the Director of the institute in the light of these new facts and hope that the administration will start the much needed learning process, at least now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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