New Delhi: In view of the possibility of expected 48 thousand corona positive cases in Bhopal, the district administration started preparing the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) the biggest quarantine center of the state, as per earlier reports.
Moreover, this was also being done due to the possibility of getting 10,000 active patients at the same time. The order had been issued by Additional Collector Ashish Vasistha. As per the order issued, all buildings and rooms of MANIT were supposed to be sanitized and handed over to SDM TT Nagar Rajesh Shukla. On May 27, 2020, 200-room Hostel Number-11 was already being handed over to the SDM.
After converting 300 hostel rooms in a quarantine centre, the management has left thousands of students with outrage and devastating stage. On the instructions of the district administration, Director Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi broke the locks of all the rooms of the hostel and put the belongings of the students in the warehouse and arranged for a bed to keep the relatives of the infected patients in the rooms.
Over this, students of MANIT have protested against the decision by showing their rage on the twitter handle of the Bhopal Collector Tarun Pithode.
On the condition of anonymity, one of the Engineering students told Newsd that he including every student is concerned about all important documents and laptops kept in the hostel rooms and states that “what will happen if something is lost or damaged, who will be responsible for that?”
No assurance has been given by anyone, the student said, ” All the hostels are converted into quarantine centre without any assurance for the safety of our belonging inside the hostels. All the students had left their rooms on 23th of March as per the order from the college to vacate the hostels.”
The student also said, as the university hostels are made quarantine centre, the risk has been increased due to which the Ph.D. and M Tech. students are looking for places outside the campus on rent to stay in the city.
When asked about the response from the college administration, the student said “Students have talked to the administration but they just have one reply that during this situation we can’t help and the local authorities have taken over the college so it’s impossible to stop them doing so. Faculty and college staff are also opposing this step because they also live inside the campus premises.”
In protest against the action of the MANIT administration and the district administration, the students had sent an e-mail to the Prime Minister, Raj Bhavan and the President’s Office, complaining and seeking intervention, and also took this to the twitter but so far no action has been taken in this matter.
“Yet no response from the local authorities has come regarding the issue and students are demanding that no hostel room should be taken for the quarantine centre as they already have departmental buildings and classrooms for the same”, students said.
Newsd tried to reach out to the Registrar of the MANIT University to talk on this issue, however, he didn’t respond. The story will be updates as and when we hear from him.
