Visits and related reports

    Several of us at Citizen's Forum made fact finding visits to the campus with the objective of understanding in detail the specific issues at hand. Some of these visits resulted in a report, which can be find below:

• • Raj Sahai, a graduate from the 1966 batch visited the campus in September 2010 and met various stakeholders, including institute officials. You can find detailed reports here.

  • Shamim Akhter, a graduate from the 2007 batch visited the campus in August 2011 to verify the facts of the compensation settlement process related to the death of Mr. Jagat Narayan. You can find more details here.

  • Amit Singh, a graduate from 2005 batch and Vaibhav Vaish, a graduate from 2004 batch visited the campus in 2011 and 2012 respectively. The reports are still awaited.

• Ashok Gupta (Ohio, 1972 batch), Praval Sinha (Varanasi, 1974 batch), Sushil Handa (Montreal, 1966 batch), Vaibhav Vaish (Chennai, 2004 batch) and VN Sharma (Ranchi, 1976 batch and also former employee 1965-1979) visited the campus in March 2013. You can find detailed reports here.

    In addition, following reports have came up as a consequence of understanding acquired over time --  apart from the visits this has been possible because we have tried to be in continuous touch with several campus community members, including workers, faculty members and students. You can find some detailed reports below :

• Condition of Contract Workers at IITK 2012, a report filed by President , Alumni Association to Director, IIT Kanpur, in December 2012.

• Responsibilities of Institute (Principal Employer) towards Contract Workers, a report prepared by President, Alumni Association with help from alumni associated with Citizens' Forum (including a labour lawyer), in February 2013