[Reader-list] IIT-Delhi rolls out 'etiquette lessons' for SC/ST students

[anupam chakravartty]

"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<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/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."


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