IITs and particularly IIT Jodhpur has been in news recently for its director, Dr C V R Murty’s decision to sack Assistant Professor Dr. Ganesh Bagler.
Dr. Bagler who is known for his research on Disease Modelling & Complex Networking, is a scientist at CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology and a visiting scientist at The Max Planck Institute, Berlin. He is also the 16th faculty member to be sacked in one-and-a-half years for no apparent reason as such.
RT @sriharsha_94: The whole institute loves ganesh banler teaching.So,please stop giving lame reasons for his termination! Understand diro?…
— Demands Of IITJ (@demandsofiitj) April 3, 2015
His sacking led to the students questioning as to why there hadn’t been a permanent faculty hiring and also why the faculty to student ratio was 1:18, when actually it should be 1:8.
@suhelseth Pls RT. IIT Jodhpur Students and 26 faculty in 3day protest for resignation of Director #DictatorFreeIITJ pic.twitter.com/Sp6Q4RVu7J
— Mohamed Rehan M S (@mohdrehan) April 3, 2015
Students from all of IIT-J are protesting against their director who seems to be firing faculty left, right and center just for the sake of it using the #DictatorFreeIITJ.
Threatened us,pressurised us,harrassed us!!..Yet,we stood like a Wall!!.United we stand,divided we Fall #DictatorFreeIITJ
— Sri Harsha (@sriharsha_94) April 3, 2015
And not just that, but students from other IITs are helping IIT-J students with their quest to terminate their director.
“@mapuna #DictatorFreeIITJ @smritiirani @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/ihzLmmxUHK”
— Ajay Monga (@AjayMonga1991) April 3, 2015
While everybody is taking the issue with utmost seriousness, there are few who still find a way to be internet trolls.
Sir, I will give you an advice. I guess its time to pack and leave. #DictatorFreeIITJ pic.twitter.com/v47Iq5zQAP
— Kunal Chelani (@KunalChelani) April 2, 2015
#DictatorFreeIITJ #Taken #TheBrokenHeart pic.twitter.com/jsxeyUiySx
— Kirti Vardhan (@thebrokenhash) April 3, 2015
Students have reached out to Smriti Irani and the HRD ministry among others to help them with their tyrant of a director.
RT @Rajvyas8574: #DictatorFreeIITJ prof murthy its enough please leave IIT. @aajtak @PMOIndia @smritiirani @HRDMinistry @ndtv @ArvindKejriw…
— Demands Of IITJ (@demandsofiitj) April 3, 2015
Here’s the list of demands and their reasons
Please find the details here http://t.co/QQQJsFWlXM for why we ae asking for a #DictatorFreeIITJ
— Ruchi Toshniwal (@RuchiToshniwal) April 3, 2015