Students indulge in violence at FDDI's Noida campus: Want their degrees to be validated

On Thursday afternoon, the ongoing peaceful protest at the FDDI, Noida took an ugly turn with the students taking the path of violence to get their demands fulfilled. They have been protesting after their degrees got affected as the MoU which FDDI had signed with Mewar University (MU) of Rajasthan was declared invalid.According to newspaper reports, students claimed they heard through some sources that talks were on for granting them degrees from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), which they do not want. The protesters also attacked windows in the building and windshields of vehicles. Flower pots and bricks were thrown at buses and cars parked inside the campus and a college bus was overturned inside the campus.

It was after the situation was getting out of control that the police was called to handle the chaos. Afterwards, FDDI students also tweeted regarding the same, tagging the PMO, the Prime Minister's official handle and Union human resources development minister Smriti Irani.

Earlier, the institute had an arrangement with Ignou for degree programmes, but the collaboration ended due to some technical reasons.  Later on, another MoU was signed with Mewar University to award degrees, but the UGC declared it as invalid, and said that a private university could not give degrees on FDDI's behalf. The institute's administration said they are fighting a case against the UGC's decision in the Delhi High Court and are expecting a solution soon. More than 3,600 students of the institute in FDDI campuses have been affected because of the row over the degree and diploma. 

Authorities, meanwhile, continued to request for more time. "It is a government institute so things are bound to take time, they are happening at higher levels. But, the process is on and documentation will happen. The students just have to be patient," said an official requesting anonymity. 

Police personnel from three police stations -- Phase 3, Sector 24 and Sector 58 -- rushed to the spot to control the situation.

Sourcce:indiatoday