Surappa said that 60 to 70 per cent students admitted to the IIT were from Punjab.

Acting immediately on these demands, Badal directed the chairman of Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) to provide a hot line to the IIT campus as a make-shift arrangement. He also assured Surappa that he would soon convene a special meeting to resolve all these issues.

'Badal would personally meet Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to seek her intervention for the expansion and modernisation of the local railway station to facilitate huge number of students and faculty members, who had to often visit Delhi and other parts of the country,' the spokesman said.