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| Internet curbs for India's toppers |
| The authorities in India's premier engineering institute, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, have cut off internet access to students.
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| INDIA
, 23-March-2007
5:12:30 AM |
| They feel that 24-hour internet access is hampering students' academic performance and overall personality development.
Students have unlimited free access to the internet in their hostel rooms to help with coursework and research but many of them use it to download movies, play games and chat online instead.
The press relations officer for IIT Bombay, Aruna Thosar-Dixit, told the BBC website this was having an adverse effect on their academics and social habits.
The ban was an attempt at correcting that, she said.
Students say while the reasons for doing so maybe right, the way they are going about it is wrong and the move is proving to be counter-productive.
Extra-curricular
Ms Thosar-Dixit said they were beginning to see a drop in attendance during morning lectures and a noticeable decline in students' participation in extra-curricular activities.
"In the morning the students would not be fresh and attentive and their socialising patterns were changing as they preferred to sit in their rooms and surf the net rather than interact with their mates.
"Academics are of primary importance for us but we also want our students to have a well-rounded personality."
Ms Thosar-Dixit said students would not have access to the internet in their hostel rooms between 2300 and 1230 but could log on in the library or their departmental laboratories where access will be uninterrupted.
The dean of students affairs, Prakash Gopalan, said one only had to look at the hard drive of any of the students' computers to see that bad content dominated over good.
"In the end, this is the Indian taxpayers' money as well as the IIT's network and we have an obligation to ensure that it is not misused," he said.
He also said he has had both positive and negative reactions to the decision.
"I've had parents who have called and e-mailed me saying that I've done the right thing," he said.
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