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IIT-Delhi rolls out etiquette lessons for SC/ST students MUMBAI: Even before this years freshmen enter the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, some others will be pushed to pick up etiquette lessons required to live on the tech school campus. The objective may be well-intentioned but putting just the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates through a self-enrichment programme has prompted experts to criticize the move as smacking of apartheid and causing a distinction between two sets of students on the basis of caste. Delhi is the only IIT to have felt the pressing need to put all the selected SC/ST candidates through classes on manners. The co-ed programme—which will be run from July 10 to July 17—is made up of modules on communication, personality development and theatre for communication (more like public speaking). Put together, in all logical integrity, it is meant to boost the confidence of students who come from a different background, say IIT-Delhi heads. But not everyone thinks of the correctional programme as a means to achieve equilibrium among campus residents. An IIT-Delhi faculty member snorts at the idea. A campus is a symbol of assimilation of many minds and several lives. To carve out a group on the basis of their origins and put them through a training programme—I would term it nothing short of apartheid. Back |
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