ITI students protest turns violent

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Nov 9

Students of Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Takyelpat burnt down two unused cars and some infrastructures of the institute at its campus today as a protest against the authorities not fulfilling their demands.

The protesting students stopped fire-fighters who had come to the spot to douse the fire. The state police force were also not able to stop the students from burning down of the vehicles and the infrastructures.

Speaking to the media, All Manipur ITI Students Union general secretary, L. Parker said that several memorandums have been submitted to the chief minister, N. Biren, education minister, Th. Radheshyam and to the authority concerned asking for infrastructure development and to review the whole administrative system of the ITIs.

But till today the government has not given any positive reply to their demands so they have taken up the agitation, he added.

The infrastructure in all the ITIs does not match the present day needs and moreover there are many unqualified staffs, he continued.

The general secretary warned that if the government still fails to take up positive action to their demands more intense forms of agitation will also take place in the future.