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Students
plan protest during PM's Hyderabad University visit
Monday, October 18, 2010 05:10:07 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad:
Tight security arrangements are in place for Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh's visit to the University of Hyderabad here Tuesday
as a section of the students and faculty is planning a protest
against laying of the foundation stone for the Hyderabad campus of
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
The students' unions and some faculty members are opposing the
allocation of university land for TIFR while the Left parties have
also appealed to the prime minister not to lay the foundation
stone for the institute.
Anticipating protests by the students and faculty, police have
made elaborate security arrangements on the campus.
Manmohan Singh will arrive in Hyderabad Tuesday at 11.30 a.m. He
will inaugurate the 21st general meeting of the Third World
Academy of Sciences (TWAS) at 12 noon.
He will lay the foundation stone for the Hyderabad campus of TIFR
at 2.30 p.m. and return to New Delhi at 3.40 p.m.
Students Monday staged protests at the university campus against
plans to allot the land to various private institutions.
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of faculty, non-teaching staff
and students fears that the land allotment to TIFR would set a
"bad precedent" as the versity authorities could allot land to
more private institutes.
The strong protest by the JAC early this year had forced
Vice-Chancellor Seyed E. Hasnain to put on hold a project to lease
out 200 acres of campus land for Knowledge and Innovation Park
(KIP).
Leaders of Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M), in a joint letter to the prime minister,
appealed to him to cancel his proposed programme as it could be
used by an "unscrupulous" administration to sanctify its "selfish"
and "unreasonable land deals".
CPI leader K. Narayana said there were proposals to allot 1,000
acres more to institutions and Singh's foundation stone laying for
TIFR would enable the university to clear them.
The central university authorities, however, clarified that land
had been allotted to TIFR, a central government's institute of
excellence wholly-funded by Department of Atomic Energy, and not
to any private institute.
The Hyderabad campus of TIFR is coming up on 209 acres of land
allotted by the state government on the university campus at
Gachibowli. TIFR plans to set up various research and academic
facilities in the Hyderabad campus with an investment of about
Rs.2,500 crore over a decade.
According to TIFR officials, the Hyderabad campus will have
world-class labs and facilities to put India in the forefront of
research in the emerging areas of science. It plans to accommodate
200 permanent faculty, 1,000 students and 300 post-doctoral
researchers.
TIFR, which was founded by Homi J. Bhabha June 1, 1945, with the
support of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, has already entered into
memorandum of understanding with the University of Hyderabad to
facilitate collaborative research.
The prime minister will also inaugurate the 21st general meeting
of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). More than 350
scientists from 35 countries are expected to attend the four-day
event.
The union ministry of science and technology is sponsoring the
meet. The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the TWAS
Regional Office for Central and South Asia (TWAS-ROCASA) are the
joint hosts.
Based in Trieste, Italy, TWAS is an autonomous international
organization which is working to promote scientific capacity and
excellence for sustainable development in the south.
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