Summary:
The strike was called by the TISS students Union and students from all four campuses of the institute — Mumbai, Tuljapur, Hyderabad and Guwahati protested. “The Institute’s decision to stop funding dining and hostel expenses of students has impacted students really hard. Hundreds of students across various campuses of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) staged an ‘institutional strike’ on Tuesday against the Institute’s recent cuts in fellowships allotted to SC, ST and OBC students. At the TISS Mumbai campus, several students assembled from Tuesday morning and boycotted classes demanding that the institute revokes its decision of scrapping a component of the fee waiver for these students. We have thus decided to continue our protest until the new notification is revoked,” said Fahad Ahmed, General Secretary of the TISS student union..