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IIEST Shibpur alumni now in California, began an online signature drive highlighting the persistent slide of the institute. They wrote the problems to the Union education minister on Tuesday. The institute suffered because of the shortage of funding authorized by the parliament.

The campaign was signed by over 2,000 ex-students of the Shibpur Institute. It sought to figure out from Dharmendra Pradhan. Is his office kind enough to agree on the release of part of the fund approved by the parliament? For the upgradation of the academic as well as infrastructural facilities?”

We have ensured that the MED under your leadership will not allow this. The lineage institution to die for lack of government support and perish into oblivion says the signed request. A copy of the request was provided by the Union Minister of State for Education, Subhas Sarkar. He is a BJP MP from Bankura.

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Swapan Saha graduated from the Shibpur campus in the year 1988 in electrical engineering. Days after IIEST teachers embarked on a “Save IIEST” campaign to fuss over the alleged scarcity of infrastructure. The unstable recruitment procedure, and the lack of appropriate classrooms and laboratories.

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The Telegraph reported on November  13 last year that a group of IIEST Shibpur alumni had met the chairperson of the institute’s board of governors. To highlight that the institute had not obtained the budgets. The Parliament had agreed to the upgrade and expansion of its infrastructure. A fund of Rs 592 crore has approved at the time BESU became IIEST in 2014.

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Calls and text messages to the IIEST director, Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, headed unpicked. Minister of State Sarkar in a text statement said: “We will go through the email on Wednesday.”

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