'Occupy UGC': Students march to HRD ministry, detained

November 18, 2015 23:19

The students, who have been camping outside the UGC office for 29 days in protest against the scrapping of non-NET fellowships, today once again marched to the HRD Ministry's office in Shastri Bhawan here to submit a memorandum.

However, the agitating students could not meet any officials from the Ministry, and 40 of them were detained by police hours later as they refused to budge from outside Shastri Bhawan.

According to police officials, around 40 students were detained and taken to Parliament Street police station.

"Around 40 students were detained today for violating prohibitory orders," a senior police official said.

Earlier, the students had marched to the Ministry on November 5, when HRD Minister Smriti Irani had come out for a brief interaction with them and reiterated the government's stand of creating a review committee to examine the selection criteria and scope of non-NET fellowships.

"We waited for hours as we were told that some officials from the Ministry will come out and interact with us. But no one came and when we refused to leave from there, we were detained," said Sunny Kumar, a protesting student.

"We wanted to present a memorandum of demands to them. We will not call of the protest until this review committee is scrapped which is no less than an eyewash," he added.

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