Punjab floods: Students still stuck inside IIT Ropar campus

PATIALA: Students at IIT Ropar were still stuck inside the campus on Monday, after rain water entered into the premises of their institute yesterday. On Monday, the water level reached up to five-feet in some parts of the institute while its seminar hall was also submerged with rain water.
The students were being provided food in their mess, however, the authorities at IIT Ropar declared one week holiday following floods.The water had entered into the newly constructed campus from the Budhuke Choe (rivulet) in which the rainwater from Mohali and other districts moves down.
Interacting with students, displaced due to heavy flooding on their campus, Captain Amarinder Singh directed the state administration to ensure their boarding and lodging arrangements in the Punjab Bhawan and Kissan Bhawan at Chandigarh till their return.
Acceding to a request from the IIT Director, he asked his chief principal secretary to work out a strategy to ensure foolproof and efficient drainage system to avert recurrence of flooding incidents in the campus.
Now after floods the fear of snakes has gripped the students stuck inside the campus hostel of IIT Ropar.
A professor on anonymity said that it will take more than two weeks to clean the campus after the water is completely receded. He said that besides students the staff was also worried after seeing the snakes inside campus premises.