Appeal from IIIT-A students about atrocities of administration including Institute Director

We the students of IIIT Allahabad are in a shocked state because of sad demise of our colleague Akshay Tyagi (Student of IInd semester, B.Tech. E & C) and the incidents which took place thereafter from the Director, Dr. M. D. Tiwari and other administrative staff. In this situation we are appealing you to take immediate steps so that our carrier wouldn’t be spoiled. We are hereby mentioning some relevant points which gave rise to the present grave situation. It is to be noted that we have in the past brought these points to the notice of the IIITA administration many times but because of the vested interest of the director and his associates no action has been taken.

1) The recent sad demise of Akshay Tyagi, a student of B.Tech. Electronics, IIITA at morning 8:00 AM (28 March) was a natural fallout of a criminal business racket being run by Vaish business enterprise keeping all the nexus with Director, MD Tiwari. This is one among other previous incidences where because of criminal negligence of Director MD Tiwari/his coterie people our beloved seniors died in a totally helpless condition. Year 2009: Megha Goel suffering with brain fever was admitted at Nazareth after a great delay where no proper super-specialty doctors were available. Year 2010: Our senior (student of MBA) suffering with asthma had exhausted his inhaler and could be sent to outside hospital only after a tremendous delay. He died within road.  Year 2011: One of our mentally depressed senior left the hostel at night and it took one hour to contact the warden. The only doctor is approachable with lots of difficulty over phone and that too through her abusive husband (The Deputy Registrar, Asheesh Kumaar) and she normally do not bother to visit the patient in person.

2) The shocked students were not even allowed to go with the dead body of their beloved pal and instead rudely threatened and mocked by Director, wardens, Deputy Registrar (Finance) R.B. Singh, RC Tripathi, Caretaker Vinod Vaish etc.

3) Everybody should know how the students are literally being butchered/enslaved by the private business interest of Vaish family in collusion with Director. A cursory inquiry by any proper investigative agency will reveal that most of the lucrative students' affair are being controlled by them where i) Naini Hostel is the property of Arun Vaish, ii) The Hostel caretaker is Vinod Vaish, iii) The students cultural affair and other matters are controlled by Director's typically intimate and therefore known as illegally appointed faculty Anurika Vaish (a simple MCom with fake PhD under MD Tiwari and promoted to Associate Professor and Head of MBA-IT division)and her brother Abhishek Vaish (who is also known as illegally appointed), iv) The student mess is also being run by Atul Gupta (Maternal uncle of Anurika).

4) Although it is not known to people outside our campus, we the students were already fade up with a series of atrocities committed by IIIT-A administration which is currently being run as the private property of Vaish family and MD Tiwari coterie (including DFO R B Singh, GN Pandey, RC Tripathi). But the sad demise of Akshay and the nasty incidents followed by administration thereafter appeared to us as beyond the limit and made us typically perturbed about the inhuman and inept nature of administration including Director MD Tiwari.

5) Now the facts with figures:

• Caretaker Vinod Vaish lodged FIR with a lawyer giving false information that Akshay has fallen from the fast running bus.
• We, the students were kept in total dark about, where was Akshay's body or where were his parents/family members or where the post mortem was performed etc.
• At Naini Hostel although officially 2 big and 2 small bus is arranged for 220 students but effectively it is not more than 3 buses with no conductors. Just imagine the crowd where students are forced to travel around 50 kms (commuting daily from Naini Hostel to Nehru Science Centre in city to Jhalwa main campus for labs and the back to Naini hostel in a single day) in such squalid conditions.
• We have reported about such bus-irregularity 1 and half month back but in vain to receive only threatening, goon like bullying from administrative authority (including MD Tiwari) and caretaker Vinod Vaish (who is simply like local Mafia).

Moreover, so many times we have reported about the very pathetic and completely inhabitable condition of Naini Hostel which includes, i) no ventilation for our rooms, ii) surrounded by asbestos factories making it dangerous for health, ii) very bad food supplied by mess for which we are paying more than IIT/NIT hostels and we have no right/say to inform about the food-quality and not even the content, iii) not possible to even get tea from outside of campus where local goons and mafias are known to roam around, iv) no place/arrangement for extra-curricular activities.

6) We could know from our seniors that since its inception, the same Director is continuously giving false assurance to first year students to bring them to their mother campus by constructing another hostel. But now we know that MD Tiwari and Vaish group finished so many unnecessary constructions (Swimming Pool, Auditorium etc.) but intentionally they stopped further hostel construction only to give benefit to Vaish Family who are earning nearly rupees 35 lacs (nearly 30 lacs per anum for the hostel building for which they are the owner and taking 5 lacs as salary for being caretaker of the same).

7) Moreover, even at present it is not a problem to accommodate first year students at IIIT-A main campus at Jhalwa, where i) seniors are ready to accommodate them, ii) among visitors' hostels I, II and III a huge space is always lying vacant at VH-III, iii) Dormitory is lying vacant, iv) 5 professors' quarters are also lying vacant.

8) IIIT-A has no dearth of money to construct a new hostel. But to the authority (MD Tiwari coterie and Anurika Vaish Family) the priorities are only to spend huge money for arranging entertainment programs, to send Abhishek Vaish and other coterie faculty/staff to abroad etc. Moreover, we the students pay much more than IIT pals are paying and only therefore we deserve good arrangements and transparency about the fate of our paid amount.

9) Initially we could not understand the logic behind authority's (i.e., MD Tiwari's) intention to keep us 30 km away from the main campus. Because even if there is no space near main campus at Jhalwa, we could have been accommodated at nearby rented houses. Now we know that it is only to give benefit to Vaish Family and also to earn through them as described above which also includes Rupees 1 Lakh monthly (rent and fuel costs) for each privately arranged bus and the maintenance of which is so poor that quite often they ask us to push it from back knowing well the risk of being run-over for its backward move at sloppy road while busy in pushing it.

10)  Students were not told about FIR and obviously not shown the copy of it. We are not even told about the place of post mortem. We are surprised and shocked about such hush-up practice and lost all the faith from the authority. When we asked about this information, we only received abusive, bullying and threatening words from warden/other authority/coterie people, for example, they would damage our career, suspend us etc.

11) We also know that because of these misuse of power and abusive/bullying/threatening tendency of authority many of our beloved teachers left this institute and later joined IITs (Dr. Kailas Ray, Ashish Upadhyay, and so many).

Therefore, we are typically pained and completely shocked with the inhuman and criminal face of the people in authority at our institute, IIIT, Allahabad and therefore placing the following demands:

Our Demands

1. Initiation of probe by external and proper Government Investigative Agency to ascertain the root cause of death of Akshay and previous students.
2. Immediate resignation of Director M. D. Tiwari and complete change of the brute, and money-monger administrators which includes other members of administration: Deputy Registrar (Finance) R.B. Singh, Student-Caretaker Vinod Vaish and Student cultural affairs in-charge, Anurika Vaish. We are totally outraged by their false assurance, threatening and abusive attitudes.
3. Copy of FIR filed by Vinod Vaish on behalf of institute and Post Mortem report.
4. Proper compensation to Aksahay's Family which should not be less than Rs. 20 lacs because institute has already forcefully taken this amount from us on the pretext of fine.
5. Immediately close Naini Hostel and stop this business racket and interest of Vaish Family which they are running in collusion with Director, MD Tiwari. Shift us immediately to main campus hostel (where our seniors are ready to accommodate us with them) and other buildings including visitors' hostels that are lying vacant. If needed vacate the hostel rooms that are currently occupied by non-hostel staffs, for example, drivers.

From:

All students of

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad