Patna, (Bihar Times): Bihar Police have come upto the expectation. After converting many primary school buildings all over the state into the police outposts and grabbing various college campuses they have now encroached the make-shift campus of the prestigious Indian Instittue of Technology in Patliputra Colony of the state capital.

It was only in the first week of August last that the classes of the IIT Patna started on the campus of the Patliputra Polytechnic. Just within a few days it was converted into the extenstion of the Patliputra police station as the building housing the original police station is in a dilapidated condition.

The irony is that the IIT Patna is already short of space. Last year its campus remained water-logged for many days as the drains of the premier Patliputra Colony could not be cleaned before the arrival of the monsoon.

The IIT authorities have written to the SSP but till now no action has been taken.

The registrar of the IIT, Subhash Pandey, was quoted in the Hindustan Times as saying: “our Students’ Activity Centre has been encroached by the cops of the Patliputra police station. They have been staying there since last monsoon.

The DIG (Central Range), J S Gangwar, was not aware that the IIT campus has been encroached by the Patna police.

It needs to be mentioned that only last month the students of Anugrah Narayan College clashed with the CRPF personnel, who have been camping there for the last several years.

With the IIT’s own campus about to come up in the next three years in Bihta, some 40 km from Patna, the students, it is feared, may have to face something more than water-logging and police station.

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