Odisha govt panel summons KIIT founder over Nepalese scholar’s dying

Expediting its inquiry into the alleged suicide of a woman scholar and subsequent motion towards different Nepalese pupils, the Odisha authorities’s high-level committee summoned KIIT (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Expertise) founder Achyuta Samanta for a private look earlier than it on Friday, 21 February.
The upper schooling division, in a letter to Samanta on Thursday, stated, “You might be requested to seem earlier than the high-level committee on 21.02.2025 at 6.30 pm at State Visitor Home to adduce proof with satisfactory documentary proof earlier than the committee on the time period of reference as acknowledged within the workplace order.”
The three-member committee headed by dwelling division extra chief secretary Satyabrata Sahu is remitted to establish the circumstances resulting in the suicide, alleged high-handed motion by institute authorities, causes for issuing discover to solely a selected group of scholars, and shutting the institute sine die for them and different incidental issues that emerged in the course of the inquiry.
The committee, additionally comprising the secretaries of the upper schooling division and ladies and baby growth (WCD), visited the KIIT campus on Wednesday and held a dialogue with a few of the Nepalese college students who had been allegedly mistreated by the employees of the personal institute for staging an indication on the campus.
Increased schooling minister Suryabanshi Suraj stated, “The high-level committee is empowered to summon anybody for the aim of inquiry into the matter. The committee is performing on the idea of legislation.”