{"id":171248,"date":"2025-03-20T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=171248"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:23:18","slug":"phd-scholars-protest-in-srinagar-over-delayed-fellowship-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/20\/phd-scholars-protest-in-srinagar-over-delayed-fellowship-payments.html","title":{"rendered":"PhD scholars protest in Srinagar over delayed fellowship payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-171249\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/image_2025-03-20_102217119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"220\" \/>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, as a mark of growing frustration among employees and the general public, PhD scholars staged a protest in Srinagar against the delay in the release of their fellowships for the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the scholars at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) carrying placards with \u201cRelease our Fellowships\u201d message gathered at the main gate and raised slogans against the administration.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting scholars said that the delay in receiving fellowships has caused severe financial hardships. \u201cWe have been waiting for our fellowships for three months. It has become extremely difficult to manage daily expenses,\u201d one said a scholar present among the protesters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Chaos on Campus: NIT Srinagar PhD Scholars Protest Delayed Fellowships&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrHFv-3ooTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome scholars have even been forced to vacate their rented rooms due to non-payment of rent. Landlords are unwilling to wait any longer,\u201d another scholar complained, adding that \u201cthe NIT administration is not serious about the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scholars also raised concerns over the absence of a permanent director at NIT Srinagar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, as a mark of growing frustration among employees and the general public, PhD scholars staged a protest in Srinagar against the delay in the release of their fellowships for the past three months. According to Kashmir Media Service, the scholars at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-171248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protests-activities","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/image_2025-03-20_102217119.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171251,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171248\/revisions\/171251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}