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SILCHAR, 24 Sep:<\/strong> Professor Brinda Bhowmik was appointed the dean of academics at NIT-Silchar, replacing BK Roy, after a weeklong protest on the campus over a student’s suicide, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n Bhowmik, a professor in the electronics & communication engineering department, has been appointed as the dean (academics) with effect from 25 September, according to a notification.<\/p>\n Her tenure will be provisionally for a period of two years from the date of taking over charge, or till further orders, it said.<\/p>\n Protests broke out on the campus after a third-year student from Arunachal Pradesh was found dead on 15 September in his hostel room.<\/p>\n The students have been alleging that Roy had insulted the victim, who got six backlogs in his first-semester examination, which was held in 2021.<\/p>\n Due to the lockdown, he was at home and failed to attend the online classes due to lack of internet connectivity, resulting in the backlog, they claimed.<\/p>\n He had appealed to the authorities to conduct a special examination, so that he could clear the backlogs, but Roy allegedly insulted him. Following this incident, he locked himself in his room and later was found dead, they said.<\/p>\n Among their demands was the resignation of Roy, whom they blamed for the suicide, and that no disciplinary action should be taken against the students for the protest.<\/p>\n The students went on a hunger strike with the demands, and withdrew from it on Friday after receiving assurances from the college authority. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SILCHAR, 24 Sep: Professor Brinda Bhowmik was appointed the dean of academics at NIT-Silchar, replacing BK Roy, after a weeklong protest on the campus over a student’s suicide, officials said on Sunday. Bhowmik, a professor in the electronics & communication engineering department, has been appointed as the dean (academics) with effect from 25 September, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}