Adilabad: IIIT Basara students staged a protest on Tuesday and continued to the next day also against the attitude of the state government for not providing minimum amenities to them.

The students staged their agitation at IIIT campus. They put 12 demands before the government to solve their problems. While most of the students boycotted classes and staged their protest in front of the administrative office, some tried to continue their agitation outside the campus, but the police stepped in and confined them to the campus.

District Collector Mushraff Ali Faruqi, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kiran Khare and IIIT Basara AO Rajeshwar Rao conferred with the student union leaders for about two hours each in the morning and the evening, assuring them that they would bring their demands to the notice of the IIIT Basara in-charge vice-chancellor and the government.

For the starters, the officials promised to release Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakh for library development and provision of laptops but the students remained unimpressed. They argued that it was a pittance considering the kind of facelift the library needed. They said the money would not be sufficient to buy the necessary equipment for the laboratories.

The students insisted that they wanted a full-fledged VC for the institution so that problems at the campus level could be sorted out immediately. The students also made no bones about their intention to continue their agitation till their demands are conceded. They decried the threat of action against them if they did not mend their ways and call off the protest. The students cried foul recently when a dead frog appeared in their food. They say that they find insects in their food almost every day and no one bothers to listen to their plight.