The measures agreed upon include the setting up of a committee to investigate cases of “gross discriminatory marking” highlighted in a recent report by the university’s Ambedkar Students' Association.
HYDERABAD: The Student Union elections held at the University of Hyderabad on Friday resulted in a sweeping victory for the ASA-DSU-SFI alliance for the 2022-23 term. The alliance, consisting of the Students' Federation of India (SFI), the Ambedkar Students' Association, and the Dalit Students' Union (DSU), secured all nine central panel posts, including Prajwal as president
ASA-SFI-DSU alliance has swept the elections for University of Hyderabad Students' Union for 2022-23, bagging all key posts.For the first time, two Dalit queer persons have been elected, including for the post of president.The Ambedkar .
Trigger warning: Mentions of casteist abuse and suicide
In April 2021, videos surfaced on the internet that showed Seema Singh, an associate professor at IIT Kharagpur, hurling abuses at students of marginalised castes and/or with physical disabilities during an online class. Her tirade was allegedly a response to a student not standing up for the national anthem and not saying “
Bharatmata ki jai“.
Another video shows Singh responding publicly to a student’s email asking for a few days’ leave after her grandfather had succumbed to COVID-19. In her response, Singh calls the request an example of “non-application of the human mind”, among other things.