Talk:NIT Trichy
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[edit] Welcome
Well i just moved the NIT_T page to NIT Trichy.Thanks muthu for giving the idea of starting this article!
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Alumni who have made it to international or national stages must be mentioned. The alumni is the best parameter to judge the quality of an Institute.
There is a lot to be said about the students at RECT or NITT. They are fun loving at the same time quite serious when it comes to academics. The faculty, however, leaves a lot to be desired- except for a few very good professors (some that I can recall are Dr Selvakumar, CS; Dr. Hemalatha Tyagarajan, Mathematics, Dr. Subbaiah, Electrical Engineering).
The college, although well reputed nationally and internationally, has always had an administration that has been very indifferent to the needs of the students. Since Dr. Illango, who left in 1995, corrupt and inefficient principals, hostel and dining administrators have made life hell for students. During the almost dictatorial regieme of Dr Aravindan and his machiavellian cohort Dr K Palanichamy from 1996-2000, the college suffered a lot. Poor infrastructutre, lack of clean water, corrupt mess workers, unhygenic bathrooms and toilets in hostels were just few of the problems. Almost in every mess bill each month, an extra Rs. 5 to Rs. 10 expense would be added to it for reasons that one could never understand. Cylone relief in Orissa when there were no cyclones that year, "Children's fund donation" without clearly stating what the oriagnization is, "Recruting expenses" when it wasn't clear who was being recruited and for what... Right from the lowly mess worker to the Principal, every official in administration (not faculty) could be bought with money. Students could never raise these complaints for the fear of being expelled from the hostels by Dr Palanichamy. A man of big ego, he would always diplomatically and cunningly present an ever-smiling face to his superiors such as the Principal and Board of Directors. The politicians in Tamil Nadu, including the Education Minister, were also keen to milk money from the college. College administration were usually puppets to them in one way or another.
The most harrowing incident during my 4 years in college and the one that brought all this to light was the very tragic death of our friend Arun Shankarraman, in March 1998. Arun was a cheerful, very outgoing and very friendly person. He was liked by one and all. He was fatally injured when he fell off from the terrace of Lapis Hostel while playing. He was still alive but unconcious and had probably suffered internal bleeding. A hostel that had nearly a hundred students had no phone. A set of students frantically rushed to the nearby clinic to get the doctor. The was not even ambulance on a campus that had nearly 3000 students and staff. Time was running out, the doctor finally arrived, but he could not be of any assistance since he probably wasn't even in a position to handle a severe trauma case like this. So he recommened that Arun be taken to the nearby BHEL hospital. But there was no way he could be transported. Some students rushed to get the college van, and Arun was finally taken there (more than an hour after he fell). He was brought to the BHEL hospital where he was declated DoA (Dead on Arrrival). That was the saddest day for all of us. That evening, all 3rd year boys gathered in front of the principal's residence to put forward their thoughts and in reality bring forward to the administration the plight of the hostels. Dr Aravindan and Dr K Palanichamy (KP) and the other members of their gang assured us that they would look into the situation. Clearly, their "asses were on fire" for they had never seen such a huge gathering of students in protest. The students were asked to return to their hostels. Some unruly students, at this point, threw some stones at KP's house. Immediately, the administration began to view the students as some sort of a hostile and untrustworthy "labour union" that was trying to assault and possibly topple the administration. They began to fear rioting. The next morning the severely distraught parents of Arun arrived from Bombay and the funeral took place that afternoon on the banks of the Cauvery. A large number of students, including girls, had gathered to pay their last respects to Arun.
In the meantime, the administration turned violent against the students. Dr Aravindan tried to play the fear factor. He personally came to Lapis and blasted the students that he was trying to get them placed via campus interviews, and here the students were protesting against the very same people who were trying to get them jobs. KP took personal vendetta against some students by expelling them from hostels almost immediately. These ironically were not the students who behaved in the unruly manner, but were in fact the ones who led the peaceful protest. Phone services were then introduced the hostels. The phone infrastucture was however very flaky and would frequently get disconnected. The hospital was never upgraded to a 24x7 trauma centre of any sort, but some money was invested in buying an ambulance (it was nothing more than a Maruti Gypsy with some basic first aid facilities). The height of the terrace parapet still ramained dangerously low at just a few inches.
Arun's death was to some extent an eye opener. But not a lot was done by the administration to follow through. Personal revenge against students instead of overall student welfare became the larger aim of the administration.
It was very ironic that the administration was investing heavily in building state of the art computer facilities in the form of the Octagon, but never invested in basic infrastructure, safety or emergency services and measures. The very same institution that took pride in state of the art educational facilities could not apply it to practical use. Water was an ever present problem in the hostels. Students would literally walk all the way to the Octagon with mugs and soaps in their hand just to be able to attend nature's call.
In summary, 1995-2000 was almost like the dark ages of the college's history. The college then saw better times when Dr Aravindan left the Principal seat and Dr Palanichamy quit as the Chief Warden of the hostels. An overall improvement in funding after the conversion from REC to NIT has also improved infrastructure to some extent.
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