[ The objective of this post is NOT to spread any communal hatred. I have only one side of the story, and will add to the details from anything provided by both the sides, the locals as well as non-locals. As for the people threatening me, namely Dinesh Darnal, you can add to this post if you have any details of the incident which I missed out obviously being on one side of the matter. Threatening me only makes the matter worse. ]
Starting yesterday, SMIT,the advertised as ‘peaceful’ college, has turned into a playground of possibly political power, communal violence and total dismay.
My involvement in the matter although was minimal, I did enough to make sure I am not the silent sufferer. Our country’s corruption and political incorrectness has survived too long on the very sole hope of this silent suffering of the common man. But, I want to make sure that everyone who is reading this knows that this generation is not just a fun loving ignorant bunch of spoilt brats. When the need arrives, we can unite our voices and forces. The facts stated here are true to the best of my knowledge, and some of them, I have witnessed in live. If supplied with amply, information will be added as provided.
It all started from a simple matter which could have been settled easily and simply, had the guilty ones kept their ego at bay and acted wisely, i.e. accepted guilt. As we all know, in these situations, rumors spread wilder than fire, and this case is no exception. But of all the facts I could aggregate, the chronology of events (I have maintained the order, tried my best to state the time) stands as given below:
- [ 06-09-09, 1315 hrs ] The events fired up with Diwas, probably a local student invited Ujjwal, a non-local into a one on one fight over a trivial football match, in his hostel room. On the same day, Anand Prakash was reportedly hit in the face by Kunga Bhutia when he was rudely asked to return a ball which went out of ground and Anand refused.
- [ 06-09-09 ] Diwas, once again driven by utter hatred and a clouded judgement called in Kunga, who’s history of involvements in fights goes back to before he came into this college.
- Kunga, who initially joined NIT Durgpur, by possible political influences, was actually rusticated from there due to his pugnacious nature. From there, he found immediate shelter at SMIT, with possible political aid, [Edit : Initially stated, "his mother being the education minister of the state" : The statement is not true. My apologies to all readers and those involved. ] , by the virtue of which, he gets to keep a motorbike, whereas any form of personal transportation is strictly prohibited to be kept by the college students.
- [ 07-09-09, sometime afternoon ] Kunga comes in, ready with his henchmen from outside the college and atleast 50 of them, who have been involved in numerous brawls with him, rough up Ujjwal, Gautam, Chandan and Jitendar and beat them up to the extent of them needing immediate medical attention. Surprisingly here, Gautam and Chandan were called in by the hostel attendant, Mr. Prakash, who had called them saying the hostel superintendant wanted to talk to them.
- [ 07-09-09, evening ] The four report to Kamal Thakur, our hostel superintendent who has a long infamous history in the college.
- Kamal Thakur, instead of calling any form of medical aid, thinks it wiser to call the police. Which is more valuable? Getting medical aid to students or getting the innocent into jail?
- Seeing the inaccurate judgement of Kamal Thakur and the college administration in the matter, the students call in an ambulance on their own. The ambulance arrives before the police, even though being called after them.
- The injured are being taken out of the college campus, but the guards deny them passage, when Kunga and group arrives for a second time, pull the injured out of the ambulance van, and assault them in open, in front of the guards. Not only this, they bring the four to Kamal Thakur’s office, assaulting them all the way, beat them up in front of Kamal Thakur, the Chief Hostel Warden Mr. G.C. Mishra and Mr. Amitava Ray, who resorts to acquiescence. What are these dummy posts for? They can only happily burst into our rooms to cut off LAN wires? what now?
- Students start gathering in front of the educational wing, and start a peace protest. Police comes in, takes the beaten ups into custody, so being the police we know of! Some peaceful people demand their release stating their innocence; get an immediate lathi-charge. What is the college’s response to this?
- [ 08-09-09 around 2400hrs ]Kunga is called to a disciplinary meeting, he arrives after already have beaten up an Assamese and threatening a senior MCA student of life. According to the threatened student, Kunga was carrying a potentially lethal weapon and put it to the senior’s throat while threatening him, clearly showing his disregard of human life and making his point of being powerful. The Assamese student, my classmate, was severely injured in the arm, which was hit probably by a rod. He reports to have seen knuckles and bar rods with Kunga and group. Kunga walks away midway in the meeting, gestures a middle finger to all the peace protesters and the teachers.
- [ 08-09-09 around 2400hrs ] The gathering gets bigger; students start a peace protest to get their innocent friends back. They hold ground all night occupying the roads in front of the educational wings. Teachers arrive occasionally to enjoy the show and stand there making a mockery of themselves.
- [ 08-09-09 between 2400hrs and 0200 hrs] Police search the local mob, finds knives and other lethal weapons in numbers. Many college students reported to have seen waiters from nearby restaurants and eateries entering the college from above fences armed with kitchen knives and other sharp weapons.
- Demands put by student:
- Release of the innocent students.
- Rustication of Kunga from the college.
- Police arrives in full force. 3 Police jeeps and 1 RAF jeep is stationed. The injured four are denied any medical treatment, neither any contact. Doctors are arranged by students and sent to the injured.
- [ 0300 hrs ] Another RAF jeep arrives.
- [ Sometime later ] Amar Akshat volunteers to initiate talks with the police, but to no avail. In the meanwhile, police releases one of the injured, with ample threats from the SP (of destroying the four’s careers with some charge-sheet framing them of severe accusations). The student, obviously putting career before anything else, requests the mob to disperse. The mob co-operates. He also puts the demand that the four will be released only if the crowd is dispersed, which is seconded by the college Director. All promises eventually turn out to be fake. There is no release of students.
More forces being deployed :
- [ 08-09-09 0900 hrs ] After sometime, the peace protest seeing the turn of events, and feeling cheated by the Director turns into a violent mob. They take to arms and decide to fight for their justice.
- [ 08-09-09 1000 hrs to 1400 hrs ]They make three failed attempts to reach the local crowd which stands behind the police, with full protection from them. In the meanwhile, the news media which was initially disallowed entrance into the college, was allowed in to report all but the violent crowd of the non-local group, bringing shame to our college. As, all this continues, some locals form small guerrilla groups and attack people at random, possibly from the other hostel door.
- In the brawl and the tension that follows, police throws 3 tear gas cans, makes ruthless lathi-charge and protects the local populace all the way. [ Edit : There have been reports of locals getting lathi-charge from the police as well. The news reached me this late due to lack of communication from the other side. My source for this information is the news media and comments. ]
- [1600 hrs] Rain starts, mob gets thinner. People disperse as rain gets heavier. The innocent people are released. Just after we disperse, the RAF personnel get into the block where the first years stay and assault them mercilessly without any proper evidence or charges, let alone reason. It was a situation of total chaos. The police and armed forces could do no better than attack the innocent yet again and again.[ EDIT : One of my friends has reported to me saying the police did NOT attack him in spite of him being in close vicinity of them and in spite of being a non-local. ]
The aftermath :
Our college has been closed down for the moment a long time till the 5th of October, some say for a period of 10 days, many unsure of the truth in the fact. The local populace at Rangpo did not even let the CRPF into Sikkim. What concerns us most is that with the police unable of guaranteeing their entry into the Sikkim, and the local mob standing right beside the armed RAF with arms, who do we appeal to for safety. The matter has gone political now as the Health Minister of Assam is reported to be visiting Sikkim regarding the security of the Assamese students in SMIT, numbering at least 800. Nitish Kumar from Bihar has talked to the CM of Sikkim regarding the same matter.
If you do not already know, our college has never allowed student unions inside of the college feeling political involvement, but today’s event has proved that we do not really need a students union to be united. All we need is a just cause. We are the next generation. We can stand against evil and once again, we won’t be the silent sufferers.
Update 1:
For previous security reasons, I could not aggregate the facts from the other side of the story. If anyone in the locals have any information to share with me or any news you want published here, please send it to my email possibly with a photographs and your phone number. I will be more than happy to accept it. I want to state the truth and not any communal hatred as suggested from this one-sided report.
Also, if any of you feel it wise and necessary to get your view out to the public, you can post a comment. Please do not use any abusive language.
Update 2:
News channels have already started reporting on this. There have been false reports of rubber bullets being fired. Please do not post half stated facts and stories from only one half of the incident. The matter is already communal.
Update 3:
We were assured fully protected escort, which was not provided, or maybe not properly provided. We were being sent in lots, and news is, one of the first three lots were apprehended midway by the locals. Any further information is pending.
Update 4:
I am safely back home. There was no sight of police or any defensive aid from anywhere to escort us as stated everywhere. I am currently reading all threats I got in the comments everywhere.
Update 5:
Here is another report by a local student Dipesh Pradhan. This report once again, blames the administration for turning a blind eye to the matter. There is evidently a lot of fact missing in between the two reports, mine and his. But there one thing we agree on.
Read the other side of the story here : Dipesh’s Blog
Update 6:
Here is an interesting comment on this post at Voice Of Sikkim:
The reasons why Engineers fight in SMIT
1. They are here not because they want it but their parents want it
2. They are not here to understand Engineering but good placements
3. Many students want Attention and they don’t’ get it so they resort to fighting
4. The local students have big attitude problem as they are spoon fed by everybody
5. The Non Locals (Not International) have big problem as they are inefficient in all fields except Mathematics and that too Mugging up.
6. The teachers don’t’ know what they are doing……….Highly Incapable of many things
7.The administration wants money and nothing else so students from all useless categories come here to dwell
8.The management keeps on changing like Call girls
9. No body cares for the College
Update 7:
What parents had to say on the matter :
Read here : Parents on SMIT incident
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Well done. You have pieced together the entire puzzle brilliantly.
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really.. an impressive script you have made here. but i am not impressed…..why? because
1) The education minister of sikkim is a male and not a female.
2) the guy you talkin about is a Bhutia and the education minister happens to be a Pradhan
follow this link http://sikkim.gov.in/asp/COUNCIL-OF-MINISTERS/index.html
3) not the sikkimese but the biharis are famous for their this attitude all over india.eg
mumbai, assam, delhi.
4) if the locals had hauled as you have mentioned with kitchen knives and that stuffs
then instead of jotting this you’d probably be in an I.C.U.
5) as you mentioned here, if the locals people and local henchmen had gathered to
bruise the non-locals,then why would they be behind the police with full protection.
my child,they were behind the police because then locals were the victims there.
5) “the aftermath” picture that you have put is a mess that your non-locals created in
this peaceful state.
6) this guerilla, goons stuffs exists in your state, so kindly don’t label that with Sikkim.
7) and lastly as you people are good in politicis makin a point of assam and trying to
gain sympathy. all you did here was type rubbish but trust me you could become a
Fictional writer.
This is a bad case yaar…..hope everything returns to normal…..
Chinmoy,
I want to state certain facts that you got entirely wrong in this report .
1) The education minister of Sikkim is a male by the name of Mr. N.K.Pradhan and therefore “he” could not have been a “mother” to Kunga character.
2) Sikkim does not have a contingent of RAF.
3) The local news channel aired the video footage of SAF lathi charging the local majitar residents and some local student, your imaginary views on the local media showing non-locals agitating is way off the recorded fact.
This makes me question your credibility, if you want the situation in the college to normalise all the students should unite and talk out your problems instead of giving communal colour to the incident. Anybody reading your report would naturally put the blame on the local students who actually are at the same position as you are in.
oi..Chinmoy..
did we treat you this horribly..??
you know shit man…you are a TRUE BIHARI…i can just say..you know whatever you have written is not what exactly happened because heres a new flash for youbuddy..YOU WERE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WITNESSED THE ENTIRE THING..”and if you give a lame excuse like ‘it was to the best of my knowledge..” you are the most idiotic living creature i have ever come across…i feel sorry for you..!!
@Chinmoy….
What is ur ulterior motive? ..Trying to project the localities in bad light..We have lived there in SMIT for 4 years but we never had any problem..basically they are people who are non-political unlike us,,,,,
call us , Bongs,,,Best or worst because we can mislead the world by writing….!!I also have brother there studying…but ur write up does not give the full view of crises.
say something?
Who will get angry first?
Locals Students..
Who is Sida Sada ?
Locals students
Who is minority?
Locals students
Who knows no politics?
Local students
who is tarnished?
local students
Note: Just because local students are minority in college …and u try to fuck those innocent people wont he resist that too in his own place…Common man we never had problem in SMIT back then with Local students…but we had problems with some teachers…Believe me they are one of the nicest citizen of our country..neat clean in thoughts and actions..but can be angry if u play with fire….U can’t fight one to one ..so u go mob way beating hapless individual..
Very sad incident.
Dear it was not amitav ray…….its Amit roy of ME dept the newly appointed warden under the chief warden G,C mishra
hi,
am from sikkim but lived in bangalore for 8 yrs and now am studying in kolkata…its been a yr. i want to say i have faced situation like this from the non-chinkies(i wonder who gave this wonderful name?)and its really disturbing to go thru’ these communalism…and a thing i have realised is its really hard to live in another state or country for that matter without being bullied or being called names which is soo not right. should i be angry right now?? no i choose not to.its not going to solve probs.
we should all learn a lesson here… an eye for an eye will turn the whole world blind.lets respect each other
peace take care…sikkim is for eóne as india is for eóne
This is nothing new for SMIT. Something similar, though much more dispersed happened in 2002 when I was at the college. The college was shut down for 15 days. The administration is incapable of being just or holding their ground. They bow down to political pressure or just the anticipation of any political pressure.
In a state like Sikkim, where communal feelings can deter state development and severely damage any progress of the state in terms of multi-cultural acceptance/openness, incidents like these are a beacon to everyone who calls themselves Sikkimese.
I hope the people of Sikkim learn lessons from incidents like these and accept facts and what is right or wrong and be fair even if the college administration/ police/politicians remain biased to local sentiments. We need people to be culturally open and fair in making decisions and not get carried away by local/communal sentiments. Otherwise, we will just be as close to extinction as far as evolution goes.
Good job in posting the facts. I hope you have given us an unbiased picture of what is currently happening.
This is not the first time that SMIT is experiencing a communal right. Even in the year 2002, we had the same kind of communal right.
That time it was Bihari student vs Local and North East guys.
Actually SMIT Management / Adminstration become helpless when it comes to deal with the Sikkim local Guys.
SMIT should take some steps to avoid such circumstances in future.
hi … i belong to sikkim but i have gone outside for my further studies…to the places like delhi…it is not uncommon for us being treated as an alien…i had so many fights with the locals…got bruised and sometimes came out winner…i know the ins and out. people from other states are as good when they are in minority.
while in college i had to pass through bengal,bihar and up and i know how they treat us when they are in majority.
we believe in harmony but do not at all take our silence as weakness.
please do not let assam,mumbai episode to be repeated here.
P.S we were much happier when there’s no migration.
we are not the people of the state where you kill people for stealing buffaloes….
I hope this is enough to prove all the credential mentioned.
those carrying lathi and knives are non locals…you can clearly see in the first picture.
chinmoy,u have given a brilliant and vivid account of the incidents.i have no doubt on the authenticity of ur report. being an ex student of smit,i have seen the bigotry nature of the locals against the non local students.the locals of sikkim are well known for their fat headedness,they resort to violence even without any instigation.
all the fucking bloggers of sikkim who wrote against u must be the locals.it is this nature of them due to which they are beaten up and raped in other parts of india.the non local people are just returning the favour when they find any motherfucking chinku outside sikkim.
Firstly, this has brought out many hidden sentiments : See here ::
http://www.pallab.net/2009/09/08/sikkim-manipal-institute-of-technology-hell-breaks-loose/comment-page-1/#comment-76837
@gyansap,
you seem to be a well educated guy, and in the technical field too. So, thanks for bringing that to my notice. I am really sorry for any form of defamation brought to the education Minister of Sikkim because of this and promise to edit the facts at the earliest. My objective is to state only the truth. The local people were hugely outnumbered by the non-local population and the police. Their best option wast to coo in the police shelter. The aftermath, yes it is our deed. At some point of time, after the incident gets calm, our people will regret that.This guerilla goon stuff :
A local boy beats up someone, police protects him, administration protects him. Is this correct? Answer this. Can you? Us being in ICU, you wished that too hard, and tried even harder not to write it. As for politics, I hate it. Even more, I hate people who feign a fair-play in it. There cant’ be any. Do not be driven by communal sentiments. I guess, protecting your community’s image should be important for you than protecting one guilty from your community.
@Ex-Smitian,
Yes true, no RAF in Sikkim, but the forces there were not police. And reports of them being RAF was news aggregated from the mob.
“if you want the situation in the college to normalise all the students should unite and talk out your problems” – if you do not already know, the director lied to us in front of the whole mob regarding the immediate release of the students taken into custody. The college is not fit to talk to. We have no united voice, only a defunc student council which is of absolutely no use in these situations.
About the Education Minister, I am sorry for any defamation or trouble caused to him, and once again, the stated news of Kunga being the Education Minister’s son is wrong.
@Rentzen,
I am not a Bihari. You are only interested in communal categorization, aren’t’ you? And if you have the other side of the story which I could not gather for obvious reasons, give it to me with a short bio of yourself and I will publish it too without any editing.
@Amit R,
Once again, my objective is to state as much of truth as I could aggregate. If you have got a view of the localites being at fault, I am no-one to stop you. You can probably get a clear approval (or denial)or facts stated here from your brother who studies there.
I wish his well being and safe return back home.
@Kunal,
you seem to be mentioning a one-one fight. What is your objective of writing this comment? And no community is a minority at it’s own place. You cannot hide your actions behind the facts of being minor and innocent.
@akash ,
I am sorry to have made that mistake if at all it is a mistake. I will correct the fact there given proof, as I have written this from a first hand account.
@supreksha,
I wish your comment breathes some sense into the minds of people.
@Suvajyoti Ghosh, siba, arun,
Thanks. I second your opinion.
@popeye,
What the hell are you talking about! Knives, show me one in that picture. A lathi can injure, a knife can kill.
welldone chinmoy you have done a nice job.
Well i m a student of SMIT and all i want to tell is that our demand was to rustricate kunga and leave the 3 non local guys from the jail to let them seek medical help….
I personally feel that Sikkim is a very peaceful state…. Even after this incident i wouldn’t change my view tabout the sikkm people as a whole…..
I admit the local student does some type of bullying to the non locals…. which even i have faced it…. and i, to some extent support it coz its there own state… and every human being has a greed for power in their own land….. but what kunga was doin was totally wrong…. and i dont support his cause….
Now lets get to the starting of this incident….
According to my knowledge… it was Ujjwal who used some filthy comments to the other one first…. its natural to become aggressive….
But again beatin in front of Kamal Thakur and other faculty members were also not justified…
Lastly i want to advise both the locals and the non locals to avoid such incidents happening in the near future by compromise, understanding, and cooperating with each other…
Let peace prevail in SMIT……
chinmoy I knw u have done a brilliant job ….. of explaining the events and those baties (locals) don’t have that simple brain and commenting recklessly . but I must add in our batch we don’t have tat problem …….. but this has been the problem for the institute for years……
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I am ashamed to know such thing happnd in cllg . I seriously believe that you can not clap with one hand so stop trying to protect non local students who i am sure were equally responsible. This article is only spreading more hatred among students. We have lived there too for 4 years we know how non localites behave. Everyone is equally responsible and if this cllg was situated in assam or bihar or u.p the same thing would have happnd with local students bringing gundas. Stop being idiot.
I am an ex-smitian of 2005 batch and busy with my work after the 4 years in SMIT- the best ever college which u will alwayz remeber once u come out. But today I am really upset. I can assure you guyz that this scuffle between the locals and boarders is a long history and every batch has witnessed a sikkimise hero in its time, starting from the times of legendary vishal buddha, tashi domrul bhutia to the new clan of KUNGA. Back in 2002 and 2005 we have witnessed similiar situations for Police and outrage if u go past.And those who are defending their state are not sure about what they are saying. Claiming or debating on the mother and father of Kunga and defending him is not the solution, you as a youth of state should come forward to resolve the issues and pay respect to humanity. Do you think that all the people in the college are worthy to be beaten up, i saw one fine gentleman commenting that “Do I scare you chinmoy”. Do you know what wanna see what fear is. Come down those hills my friend, we will show you what fear is as your legends, who were beaten up in multiple cities once they were exposed. Why is that the Sikkim people can never interact with other groups in the college since its inception, why is that their is always two classifications- Sikkimese and Non -Sikkimese in the institute..the reason is not far to fetch..u are comfortable in the small acres you are and dont want to compete, who of your legends could rank top the charts in the history of the college. If its you state and your college that you boast why are u turning it into a brothel and crowing the pimp as a hero..guyz its time to be honest to yourself…wake up and make the difference…dont forget that your little village Majitar has been turned into a city because of these guyz, ur revenue and food is dependent on our visits and if that is stopped..how will u survive…so wake up and think some thought out of your swealed heads…..and chinmoy..hats off to you…
Me, an ex-student of SMIT know how the hostel staff support the local students & looks always differently to the non local students. we suffers a lot. There was not any search in the rooms of the local students. I have seen that fellow KUNGA…… seems to be the DON of SMIT always in a mood to fight. Last year he threats some of the MBA final year students just to end up……………..now just imagine how a 1st year student can threat to a final year Master student. Every one know him every faculty also but all r quite.and nothing will happen to him we all know. This thing will take time to cool down. Because this time all students rise up to protest. Previously lots of kunga comes & gone no 1 there to stop them because students r not united………….but now scenareo is different.
Its truly a rising in SMIT.
kudos to chinmoy for daring to post the truth he knows.why are local guys kind of threatining him.he posted wt he knew and wt he saw.and there is a lot of truth into tht.and mind u chinmoy is no bihari and this time all the non localites wheter bihari ,assamese ,bengalis or delhieits were up against just one so called localite the most hated kunga aka kinza.wt we were demanding is his restication and nothing more.even the nepali guys have problems with him,it was kunga tht gave it all a communal colour to save his ass.and after all how can i not comment on our beloved director dear mr. suvareddy the administrtaion for there incompetence in solving the matter peacefully .according to me we should rather unite (i.e locals ans non-locals) to fight against the incompetent administration which is quick enough to remove basic facilities like lan and suspend students in the name of sharing porn rather than acting against real culprits involving in violent incidents
i wish to get a reply from any of the locals ,wheter they really support kunga or they r with him because it has got a communal colour .chinmoy no need to worry ,continue with ur good job .
faculties like Ajay Kumar of EC should be held responsible for instigating the mob which led to arson.He should be put to task.
its so sad that people are yet to feel friendly to each other, the smallest of arguments lead to the biggest of chaos. keeping everything aside, hostility towards one another arise from pre conceived notions of inferiority/superiority, and the fact is no one is above another, all are brothers and being together to walk together in a path towards a better life. anger always arises from fear within, and the fear from what u conceive about urself and draw parrallisms to others. its importna tthat peace should be restored to all who have gone through this trauma in an educational environment which was lost of its purpose.
all communal people should be banned from SMIT……….
especially preference for locals should immediately be stopped………….
Hey ,
NIce information.
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It was really entertaining reading all the comments. Hey Chini, try getting a bodyguard the next time you get back to college.
Anyways the update 6 was hilarious. And the most humorous thing about it is, that it is true!
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to all d peopl who have commnted on the recnt happenings at smit…………
ds ne body notices that the authorities hve nothn 2 say in all dis chaos..y isnt nebdy questionin dem?…..i m not at all political so my views are completely on humanitarian grounds……dr r so mny of my frnds among localites or non localits…..n so ds odrs,y such rifts?..if dr r 2 diffrnt individuals, dr hs 2 b differences n arguemnts regardn everythn …i will never blame eidr d locals or d non-locals..if dis hs happnd in bengal or bihar or assam,will d majority sit back to let dr own peopl being bullied by outsiders?….Bt its the responsibility of the authorities to bring back the decorum.they shd take step to prevnt sch activities….2 m knwlegd dis is d secnd such incidnt…if steps r nt takn 2 prevnt such clashes,,dr will b frequent outbursts among studnts……….callin it as communal n involvin politics is just a way adoptd by the college management to flee 4m their responsibilities…..
i hope v hv a bettr managemnt nxt time such chaos occurs…
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hey frens….reely srry bout th incident….n plzzzzzzzzzzzzz stop all communal toks….we all knw dat there were mistakes from both sides…so u cant put th blame on one side…plzz th country has already seen way tooooo many partitions…..let us all b indians and not sikkimese/assamese /bihari…..we shudnt fight within ourselves bt shud unite n stnd up for rights like th obh lan and against many other nonsense rules tht th college keeps coming out with….violence is not th solution guys…it ruins one’s wisdom ….see wat happnd to th recreation room!!!! now where in smit are u gonna watch ur champions trophy or epl .or th list goes on……do u think the administration is gonna provide us wid new tv, tt / billiards boards or th gym instruments….guys smit is our home…n we are all brothers….i knw th administrative staff who should be th parents do not take a good care so th least we can do is help each other to make our 4yrs stay here in college a joyful, full of fun experience…i dont like watchin my bros fight…we already shed too much blood playin cs
…..plzz guys try n remmbr th line frm our student’s pledge- all indians are my bros………(leavin th rest for u 
)…. we r guys of 20-21 not here to fight or discriminate regionally….we are here to get creative and lead our country to a stage wer it can finally be called a developd 1…its not gonna b possible if we keep such narrow minds…lots to write bt not enuff time……i jst hope tht all my bros laugh at their foolishness and gt bak to college n live as proud 1.INDIAN 2.SMITstudents ….guys sumthin needs to be done bout th obh lan ….plzzzzz….hehe…luv u all…
Guys, this is India, and every freaking engineering college in India goes and has gone through this. Every engineering college will have some problem like this one. Even in school, the bullies were always there, there were always fights, there were always parents coming in to protect their kids. Only difference between them and this one is that it has been given a communal color by those who wished to extract the maximum out of it. That is what I feel.
Ask your colleagues from India – even REC’s have this local/non-local fights. Arrey in Bangalore and all top colleges of Karnataka it happens, and I’ve heard my colleagues speak about it. It’s just that here it’s been happening for so long that people have got used to it. In Sikkim, it’s a relatively new thing and that’s why the hoo-ha, if you ask me.
I’m sure if I’d gone for engineering in Bhopal (where I almost joined), then I’d have faced a torrent of slaps and abuses from the locals/seniors there. If the Bihari students in SMIT were in an engineering college in Bihar, then I’m sure that they’d have been the bosses there. Don’t you agree?
And most of this stuff of fights and local/non-local gets over in students by the time they reach 3rd year, when studies takes priority. That is when a teeny weeny bit of maturity sinks in, I feel. Well, it happened to our batch. Now when I look back, it was all just a rush of adrenaline, nothing more. And yeah, I do regret a lot of stuff.
LOL – no idea why I wrote such a long one here. Anyways, no offense guys. Just wanted to share my thoughts.
Peace out.
well i am 2006 passout.
well am not surprised to read this as in my tenture too similar thing happened in 2002,2003.and repeated in 2006 or 2007 also after my passout.
Yes i agree and we all know there r 3 main factors for this :
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1) college management won’t do anything concrete atmost will change the Director and Hostel Supretendent (as they earlier did)
2) Ego problem with both Locals and Bihari group.
Locals live western style ,feel proud,don’t talk much
While bihari live like rural Indian type,always roam in groups and make comments and try to get themself in everything
3) Teachers(both local and Bihari) and local staff including mess staff with do partiality and try to bring racialism indirectly.
And I read various blogs ,one favouring Bihari while other favouring local.
The truth is there r good and bad in both the groups.
Bottomline : WHO suffers ??
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College / Management : Not even 1% (next year it will again be a housefull of admission), faculty is getting experience atmost they will move to some other college
if situation got worse
Director / Hostel Supretendent / Hostel Warden : will get transferred to some other location or will get a handsome perk for their resignation and in college it will be announced that they are fired.Moreover they are retired people even if they r fired do u think the care !!!
Student : only the major culprit will be fired from college rest will get warning letter which most of them will throw within a week
Placement,examinaton all will took place .though placement for current final year student may not took place.
so question is does anyone suffers :
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Students : for most of them who r not involved,its a vacation for them
But the one who were not involved in this and got hurted ,its a psychological trama to them and also to the Parents of those students who are not very rich and are somehow managing huge fees for the kids courses.
Hi,
Just to introduce myself I had passed out from MIT Manipal more than 25 years ago. I was just searching under MIT and I looked up the major issue that had arisen at your college. I hopefully have a independent view and think of the whole humanity as being one. Similar diffrent incidents had happened at our college due to diffrent reasons, and in the end Police firng also took place in which a student from Karnataka died, 1 student from Andra Pradesh got paralysed, and nearly five more students from all over India got injured. There was no distinction among us and to this day lots of us from that period still remember how we had cried and are still trying to understand them. The incidents just kept spiralling out of control. I know some students join colleges for wrong reasons and sometimes the administration also fails. Sometimes the administration out of fear of the students can aggravate the situation. We ex-MIT’ians from Manipal now meet every year, travel from all over the world to meet each other, go to each others childrens weddings to all parts of India. I would beg all of you to sink your differences, study hard, become good Indians and human beings. Life is a struggle as it is. God bless all. Raghu
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hi friend,
i am asking a question that is SMIT college is good for MBA and campus comes or not plz relpy me sir in my emain id ie. bganeriwal@gmail.com
this people of sikkim r a kind of looser who dont hav te quality nor te brain to perform only thing they can do is look at te outsiders n learn how thing r done in any field of job…………..rater than to be jealous of the outsiders
SMIT is the place of ALL CORRUPTED peoples. You know, Admission comittee Chairman Vinod Kumar Sayal is a full corrupted person. All the M.Sc (Physics) students know him as a killer…He intensionaly make the situation to fail the students…and ask money from them to pass…Never ever send any students in SMIT…Most of their Master's degree are valueless…In the Interview board, when they come to know about SMIT, they don't give any value to the candidates….They know the poor quality of the teachers of SMIT…
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