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Amid caller protests by students demanding amended infrastructure, a fewer panels from the ceiling of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Dr B.R. Ambedkar Central Library collapsed connected Tuesday night.
No injuries were reported but immoderate students’ laptops were damaged, a assemblage authoritative said.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) wrote a missive to the main librarian astir the “infrastructural lapse”. “It is profoundly unfortunate that portion the medication has been speedy to propulsion for surveillance measures specified arsenic the installation of facial designation machines and an expanding web of CCTV cameras, basal infrastructure, information and accessibility for students person been neglected,” the missive read. They reiterated their request for infrastructural information and maintenance.
The Hindu reached retired to assemblage officials, who confirmed the incidental but did not connection a comment.
Ranvijay, a PhD student from the Centre for Indian Languages, said, “I had entered the room a fewer minutes earlier [the ceiling collapsed] ... anyone could person been severely injured.”
In August, the JNUSU had protested against the installation of biometric exertion astatine the gates of the room and alternatively telephone for a revamp of the infrastructure inside.
