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| Classes cancelled, NIT Srinagar students leave for home amid confusion | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 4: Amid confusion and heightened security across Jammu and Kashmir, hundreds of students from Srinagar's National Institute of Technology on Sunday left for their home states with local administration coming forward to facilitate their smooth journey.
The students, from different parts of the country, reached the winter capital Jammu from Srinagar around midnight, hoping to return to their institute early.
"We were asked to get ready on Saturday morning after a notice by the management informed us that the classes have been suspended till further orders. We boarded buses arranged by the management and reached here around midnight," said Amit Kumar, a student from Bihar.
Mr Kumar along with his other classmates were waiting for a train at Jammu Railway Station to return home.
"We don't know when the classes will resume. We have been told to watch for a fresh notice and ensure our return once the institute reopens," he said.
Jammu South's Sub-divisional Magistrate Srikant Balasaheeb Suse said around 300 students from NIT Srinagar have left by Madras Janta, Sri Shakti, Malwa and Hapa express trains.
"The remaining 130 students will be sent through Begam Pura express. The district administration is coordinating with railway authorities for their safe return from Jammu," Srikant Balasaheeb Suse said.
He said the students were provided accommodation and breakfast at the railway station as part of the efforts to ensure they do not face any hardship.
The NIT issued the notice for suspension of classes on Friday evening and said the notice was issued in accordance with the instructions received from the Srinagar district administration.
"This is for the information of all students of the institute that the classes for all courses stand suspended till further orders," read a notice issued by the NIT registrar.
The Srinagar administration, however, sought to clarify that the reason cited by NIT, Srinagar in its notice for suspending classes is a case of miscommunication.
The institution mistook the administration's advice to all educational institutions in the district to be watchful, it added.
"The decision to suspend classes is the institute's own," said an official statement issued Saturday evening, adding no instructions for suspension of classes or closure of the institute were issued by the district administration. |
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