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NIT-W withdraws 7.5 CGPA condition for contesting SC elections
The row over stipulation to have 7.5 Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA) for contesting Students Council (SC) elections at National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW) has been resolved.
Warangal: The row over stipulation to have 7.5 Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA) for contesting Students Council (SC) elections at National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW) has been resolved.
The Director of the institute, Prof GRC Reddy, has consented to withdraw the 7.5 CGPA condition for contesting the election. He held talks with a group of students’ representatives on Monday along with senior faculty to discuss the issue.
During the talks, the representatives have convinced the Director on how the stipulation of CGPA would affect the aspirants intending to contest for the Students Council and urged him to withdraw in the larger interest of the students, the sources informed.
Following which, the Director has agreed to do away with the condition of 7.5 CGPA for the current year and fresh notification for the election has been issued and posted on the NITW website on Monday.
The election is scheduled to be conducted on August 11 and counting of votes would take place on the same day. The nominations would be received for two days on Monday and Tuesday. A debate among the contesting candidates would take place on August 10.
Earlier on the day, as many as 2,000 students took out a rally on the roads inside the institute campus in support of their demand of withdrawing the condition of 7.5 CGPA for contesting the election.
Later the students squatted in front of the institute administrative block for two hours while their representatives held talks with the authorities. When one of the institute authorities announced to the students the director’s decision they welcomed it loud cheering.
However, other conditions such as candidate in no event should have any academic backlogs and should not have been subject to any disciplinary action by the institute authorities have remained in vogue.
