Two student groups clash at IIMC Delhi

Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Delhi is in the headline yet again for a scuffle between two groups of students. The chaos took place in the presence of three faculty members, around 2 pm on January 11, according to IE report.

Things escalated after a student, Ashutosh Kumar, accused another of deliberately not including his contribution to the weekly IIMC newspaper.

Kumar claimed that his story regarding the sudden termination of IIMC’s guards was removed from the final paper. “Students are required to publish a newspaper as part of an evaluation and teams are allotted. I submitted a story about how IIMC’s guards were terminated from their jobs without prior notice, which got removed from the final piece. I questioned this,” Kumar, a Hindi Journalism Diploma student, claimed as per the report.

He added, “The course director and two associate professors were present in the classroom during the fight. Two girls also abused me in the presence of the faculty.”

He claimed that he tried to question the course director about how such behaviour was acceptable in his classroom, but was attacked by classmates.

The report stated that the faculty present during the chaos tried to calm the students down. A student also claimed there are certain students who are politically motivated.

Kumar and three other students staged a protest on Thursday and submitted a complaint application to IIMC director general Sanjay Dwivedi.

However, a senior official from the institute called it a minor. He further stated that the institute has formed a disciplinary committee with a dean and four senior professors to resolve this.

Meanwhile, Director General Sanjay Dwivedi wished to give no comments until the disciplinary committee reaches a conclusion.”

Read More:

• Kurukshetra University ties up with Netherlands academy