Now, cricket turns healer at NIT

The Buzz is called back to Dal Lake, Chenab, Jhelum and Indus, hostels of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, by the rivers of Jammu and Kashmir.

Around 70 percent of outstation students will be back after the campus left about the bad blood that erupted during a cricket match between India and West Indies on March 31.

And now these students playing cricket with the local people. It is a sunny Saturday and Mujtahid Ahmad, a local student from Kashmir Sopore volatile region pursuing B.Tech. in information technology, the Jhelum Premier League is observed, organized a cricket tournament from Jhelum Hostel, which houses 300 local and outstation students. Playing Around 10 teams.

"The cricket controversy is a thing of the past. All students are back at our hostel. It's like the old days. There is no friction," he told the Hindu.

The match between India and West Indies was a source of a wedge between local and outstation students. Clashes between students and police, which left injured 60 students, snowballed into a major debate on nationalism, followed by a mass exit outstation students in their hometowns.

With normalcy on campus limping back, Aparna Rai, a student from Benares, the first week back for the smaller test, starting in May. She dismisses any sense of insecurity or threat.

With exams begin on May 5, at least 911 students from 1441 who left after the clashes had returned to campus from Friday evening.

"We have offered a flexible test plan for outstation students. Those who are still to come be reached out to. At the written request of the student, the papers will be reviewed by outsiders labeling each ruled unfair," NIT Chancellor Fayaz Ahmad Mir Die Hindu told.

Akash Priyadharshini, a student who is an implant subjected to breaking his arm during the police action, was offered by the NIT travel and accommodation expenses.

However, there are many students who complain about the non-fulfillment of their demands.

"Geyser and wifi were not our demands. The administration is silent on most of the requirements put forth by us as 50 percent with personnel from outside," said an M.Tech. Student, requesting anonymity.

NIT Director Rajat Gupta said a preliminary report on the incident had been submitted, and the final report was expected by 15 May.