Students want probe in EDI encounter

Aspiring entrepreneurs residing in the hostels of Entrepreneur Development Institute have demanded a probe following a second attack on the EDI building recently in which security forces are said to have pounded the hostel building with rockets and other ammunition. There had been a three-day long encounter earlier in February in the EDI complex leaving two Lashkar militants dead, after the administrative block of the EDI came under a militant attack.

But post this month’s militant attack, questions have been raised on the use of rockets by the security

forces. According to the EDI employees, it will take at least a year and a half for the building to be restored and this is bad news for the young, educated but unemployed youth who wanted to get training in the institute and start their own business ventures. According to a senior official of the EDI, they had a target to impart training to about 5,000 candidates this year. The encounter in February, followed by the unrest of more than three months, was aggravated by the attack this month, and now the fate of the young boys hangs in balance.