4 international college students had been requested to vacate the hostel on the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad this week after their visas expired, officers stated Sunday.
This comes weeks after a number of international college students had been injured in clashes on the varsity, triggering considerations concerning the security on the college premises. The variety of worldwide college students who’ve been requested to vacate the hostel because the incident over documentation-related issues has now risen to eight.
5 international college students had been injured on March 16 when a bunch of 20-25 individuals allegedly barged into their hostel and assaulted them for providing namaz throughout Ramzan within the hostel constructing. The incident had prompted visits by an Afghan and a Gambian delegation. The delegations additionally held conferences with Vice Chancellor Prof Neerja Gupta over security considerations.
Among the many 4 college students requested to vacate the hostel this week, three are from Afghanistan and one is from East Africa. “The visa of those college students and the phrases of their scholarships have expired. Thus, their consulates too have requested them to return. That is routine work,” the Gujarat College Vice-Chancellor advised The Indian Express.
As reported by The Indian Specific earlier, when Consul Common of Afghanistan in Mumbai Zakia Wardak on March 22 visited the college, the varsity had requested 4 of its seven Afghan college students to vacate the hostel and campus. On the time, Gujarat College had seven college students from Afghanistan. Of them, 4 had been outdated college students who had been requested to go away inside per week. There isn’t a scholar from the neighbouring nation on the varsity within the tutorial session 2023-24 after the central authorities’s revision of associated coverage.
Trying on the Taliban and the scenario in Afghanistan, the ICCR (the Indian Council for Cultural Relations) admission portal for Afghanistan college students was not opened this tutorial session, and no enrollments had been executed, ICCR Director Gujarat Surinder Kumar had advised this paper. In the meantime, officers at GU revealed that amongst these 4 college students, paperwork of two college students was pending which was accomplished too whereas the remaining two needed to clear a number of topics the method of which the College had fast-tracked.
Denying any extension in keep, the Vice Chancellor had stated on the time, “Out of the remaining three, one is a PhD scholar. They won’t get an extension. I had advised them the day earlier than that inside per week you’d return. They’re within the course of. Out of 9, two had already left. We’ve got advised them very clearly that you simply go, don’t overstay right here.”
There are round 300 international college students enrolled underneath the ICCR scholarship in Gujarat College whereas the state has round 1,100 such college students.
The 300 GU college students — round 70 are hostel residents — are from international locations like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Indonesia, African international locations together with Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Mali, Mozambique, Botswana, and Kenya.
Following the incident, involved concerning the security and safety of its college students a delegation from the Gambian Excessive Fee had additionally visited the campus. As per Gujarat College authorities over 25 college students from Gambia are enrolled in several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes supplied by the College.
