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IITian to sit on indefinite fast against corruption in state

Following in Anna Hazare footsteps, the IIT and IIM alumni and CEOs from India and abroad are going to hold an indefinite fast at the Jantar Mantar beginning Wednesday (Baisakhi) against rampant corruption in Rajasthan.

"There has been an overwhelming response to the proposed indefinite fast and we also have the support of prominent citizens of the country including Sri Sri Ravi Shankar," said Varun Arya, president, Marwar Education Foundation, Jodhpur.

A 1981 IIT-Delhi alumnus, Arya recounts how he was cheated of his dream of returning to a clean and corruption-free India. "Some of us, alumni of IIT Delhi, met the governor and the chief minister in 1999. They asked us to do something significant for the state. I decided to quit my cushy job at an American multinational, and returned to Rajasthan, after being away for 24 years."

In 2005, Arya and few of his friends purchased 236 bighas (94.4 acres) of barren wasteland in Kaparda, Bilara tehsil, Jodhpur to set up a top quality educational institute, 40 km from Jodhpur, equivalent to IITs & IIMs. "But owing to harassment and victimisation by politicians and officers at every level, we have not been able to move a brick in the past six years," alleged Arya.

Reacting to the indefinite fast, Jodhpur collector Siddharth Mahajan said, "I have no idea of the time since they have been following this project. The land to be converted was over the prescribed ceiling. A proposal has been sent to the principal secretary revenue. We will issue them a letter for 135 bigas on Wednesday as Tuesday happens to be a government holiday."

Arya however, remains defiant, and said, "Now they are asking me not to proceed to Delhi, but I can't trust their intentions."

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