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Students indulged in violence: management

Staff Reporter

Computers, sophisticated equipment `worth Rs. 3 crore damaged'

Tambaram: The management of the SRM Deemed University has expressed anguish over the "unfortunate incidents" of violence involving students of the institute and the police.

Speaking to the media, P.T. Ganesan, pro-vice chancellor said they had been repeatedly telling the students and parents that it was not necessary to seek approval from the AICTE for conducting courses or starting new ones. Narrating the sequence of events, Mr. Ganesan said the students gathered near the Principal's quarters at around 11.30 p.m. on Monday.

They threw stones at his quarters, damaging glass panes and later told him that they were going on a strike over the issue. Five police personnel, who came to the spot after authorities had informed them, were also at the receiving end. Mr. Ganesan said, about 50 policemen rushed to the spot after their vice-chancellor spoke to M. Amalraj, Superintendent of Police, Kancheepuram district.

He said students had entered the hi-tech computer block through the air-conditioner cabinet and went on a rampage, destroying Apple Macintosh systems and other sophisticated equipment. Property worth Rs. 3 crore were damaged, he said adding some of the students were "caught red-handed stealing the sophisticated machines."

Though Mr. Ganesan and M. Ponnavaiko, Director (Research and Virtual Education) repeatedly claimed they had evidence of students actually damaging laboratories and stealing computers, the discs played to the reporters only had glimpses of students assembled in a marriage hall nearby and the damaged computer laboratory.

They said that as a Deemed University, it was under the purview of the UGC. To a question on whether the UGC had carried out any inspections, they said the Commission visited deemed universities once in three years and they were anticipating an inspection any time.

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