Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle IITGN

03/07/2021

We at APPSC IIT Gandhinagar are deeply saddened for the concerned faculty member at the IIT Madras who had to leave the institution owing to severe caste discrimination in multiple instances. We strongly condemn such ghastly and inhuman treatment meted out to a fellow teacher by his own faculty counterparts. IITs are, without a shred of doubt, inherently casteist and function in a systematic process to double down on the oppressions of the Bahajuns. The establishment of SC/ST minority cells are the immediate need of the hour.

29/06/2021

29/06/2021

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10140:rainbow-casteism-and-racism-in-the-q***r-community-is-alienating-us&catid=129:events-and-activism&Itemid=195

Sophia I entered the Delhi q***r movement in my early 20s, as a complete outsider in terms of language, origin, race, class, and caste identity. I wanted to bring change to the status quo and challenge the existing caste and class hierarchy that pervaded the movement. I started my initiative...

29/06/2021

https://www.firstpost.com/india/national-overseas-scholarship-state-must-undertake-vast-expansion-of-scheme-will-benefit-nation-in-long-run-9759931.html?fbclid=IwAR02JRLg_o4l8Q39DRNd2DUk2ZqABYK7J0gwEJgdhJEHtRrdWXsLDp7W6wM

For marginalised communities, modern education is a precious asset and a way for acquiring socio-economic mobility in an unequal society

24/06/2021

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05/06/2021

Reservation norms violated in all the IITs in faculty representation.

(*Indian Institute of Upper Castes).



Source:- RTI Data [Egalitarians, a not-for-profit voluntary organisation working to democratise Indian academia, and Mr Siddharth (an alumnus of IITB) approached different IITs seeking caste and gender diversity details in PhD admissions and teaching faculty composition, under the Right to Information (RTI) act 2005.]

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02/06/2021

Reservation noms violated in PhD admissions process in IIT Gandhinagar. (Year: 2020)

Source: Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal answered in the Lok Sabha on 08.02.2021.

26/05/2021

Despite the lack of media coverage and continual attempts at erasure from public domain, the farmer's protests continue at the borders of Delhi and different parts of the country. On this day, the farmers have completed six months demanding the Centre to repeal the 3 Farm Laws.

24/05/2021

Egalitarians, a not-for-profit voluntary organisation working to democratise Indian academia, and Mr Siddharth (an alumnus of IITB) approached different IITs seeking caste and gender diversity details in PhD admissions and teaching faculty composition, under the Right to Information (RTI) act 2005. The RTI data shows that the Institute does not follow the constitutional mandate in admissions to PhD and faculty recruitment.
The data shows that out of total 107 professor, 101 professor are from general category and there is only 5 OBC professor, 1 SC Professor and not a single ST professor in the institute (IIT-GN).

21/05/2021

21/05/2021

Ahmedabad Mirror reports on the unjustified summer term hostel fee hike at IIT Gandhinagar. We, the members of the APPSC IIT Gandhinagar, demand an unconditional waiver of the fees due to the pandemic.

Summer hostel fee hiked from Rs 4,000 to Rs 7,500; officials say fee hike necessary to cover rise in cost-of-living, utility charges