| IIT-M students protest 'mess'y food Students of IIT-Madras organised a hunger strike on Thursday evening to protest the low quality of food served in the hostel mess. L. The feed back form, where we could rate the food, till last year, is not there anymore," he said. We have been waiting for almost 1 year for the situation to change. Chaos prevailed in the institute as students blocked others from entering the canteen. Students complained that the quality of the food had been fast deteriorating and attributed it to the fact that only one caterer was hired by the institute. D. scholars, besides students from other institutes who have come on fellowship programmes. Many students are at home as the exams got over a few days ago. Director of IIT-M, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, addressed the students later in the evening after they shouted slogans outside his house. The bids will be open on Monday. Now we have no option but to put up with the situation as it is not possible to go out of the campus to eat every day," he said. Ganesh, dean (students) said that the vacation mess is different from the regular mess facility and the institute had made the tendering process of the service provider public. Acknowledging the simple fact that many students had complained about the food quality many times, he said, "We are in the process of getting a brand new service provider. "Till last academic year, we had three caterers. "The institute, on one hand, says it wants us to be healthy individuals and on the other, provides us such bad food. On Thursday however, the situation worsened because the caterer had disabled all counters, except one, leading to a long queue. |
Friday 18 May 2012
IIT-M students protest 'mess'y food
