surat for the 330 students of msc it a fiveyear integrated course introduced last year at south gujarat university sgu the crisis of identity is simply frustrating almost all of them who had secured admission to this selffinanced course after paying a hefty fee are yet to feel being it students despite having completed up to three semesters forget the muchtouted cyber town with an exclusive campus for it with proper infrastructure even the foundation stone laying ceremony is yet to take place students dont have access to even a single foreign journal at its oneroom library having just about 300 books even the library located at the surat municipal corporationrun medical college in piplod is a rented one for the last oneandhalf years the students did not even have a single worthwhile seminar or interaction with it experts from outside no wonder if things continue like this almost all of them plans to leave the course after completing six semesters that is after acquiring a bsc degree so disgusted are the students with the state of affairs that they do not hesitate to admit that their dreams of becoming it professionals are getting crushed for no fault of theirs mismanagement and lack of sincere efforts on the part of the authorities have left them in the lurch and one can see the helplessness writ large on their faces left with no other option they have opened up worried about the bad image this it discipline acquired over the months and the damage control exercise is nothing but saving themselves from a disastrous career which seems imminent due to mudslinging among various groups with vested interests at the university jaydeep popat a second year student said the it ambience at present should have been much improved but for the vested interests of various groups students have no options left rather than seek the attention of higher ups at the university but nothing seems to have come up so far in terms of proper infrastructure last week class representatives of the course in a letter to vicechancellor prem sharada had apprised him of the state of affairs a copy was also addressed to chancellor governor sundar singh bhandari when contacted it was learnt that sharada had left for delhi and his comments on the delay of the muchpublicised cyber town could not taken it may be recalled that for several months these students had to learn the basics of information technology without computers due to the delay in acquiring ibm computers from singapore and the costly affair of procuring computers from singapore still remains a mystery why should students suffer due to problems at the management level said rohana sena a student frustrated over the lack of proper facilities the same observation was echoed by dhamaliya ganpat a class representative and meha grover a third semester student there should be an exclusive campus with proper infrastructure for msc it as we all have paid a hefty admission fee said shishir das