Rohit Shishodia
The Delhi Police has detained a large number of research scholars, including those with Delhi-AIIMS, as they were protesting in front of the offices of the Human Resources Development Ministry at Shastri Bhawan in Delhi on January 16, 2019.

The research scholars, who had come from across the country, were protesting against there being no increase in their stipend. The research scholars said that they met concerned officials and ministers for hiking their stipend. They said that they received assurances but nothing happened on the ground.

They added that they protested because of their voices were not being heard.

“We have been forcefully detained by the police. We are sitting in Parliament Street Police Station. We demand an early hike in stipend, otherwise we will campaign against the government before the polls. We will campaign as to how government is cheating the research scholars,” said Lal Chandra Vishwakarma, Chairman, Society of Young Scientist, Delhi-AIIMS.

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