NIT Trichy’s administration and the overall environment were quite good sometime back. However, after a few years, things have drastically gone downhill.
A new regulation on students’ attire was put into place. However, I was shocked to notice that the security guards were not strict towards the girl students who disobeyed these orders, whereas, the boy students were strictly scolded for the same disobedience and were denied entry into the main campus.
There is a curfew on the girls’ hostel timings. On the one hand, where universities and colleges are doing away with regressive rules, the NIT Trichy administration is putting more such regressive measures into place. The hike in hostel fees is not justifiable considering how students have to face a lack of drinking water, which is one of the most basic requirements of the human body.
Social media applications like Facebook and Hotstar are banned on the NIT Trichy campus. There are timings set for using the hostel wifi. The administration is not answerable to students and student welfare is being sidelined. The institution is paying attention to its infrastructure and faculty. However, the students are being treated as secondary citizens.
Thus, the main obstacle in the social life at NIT Trichy is the administration’s behavior towards the students.