A nursing student at Chandigarh PGI has gone missing, according to an RTI: the student had climbed over the wall to escape because NINE’s main gate CCTV camera was broken.
The disappearance of a nursing student from the Nursing Institute of Nursing Education (NINE) dormitory at PGI Chandigarh has exposed serious incompetence. The PGI Contract Workers Union’s Joint Action Committee Chairman, Ashwini Kumar Munjal, made this accusation.
According to him, the PGI administration acknowledged in the material requested under the Right to Information (RTI) Act that the CCTV cameras at NINE’s main gate were malfunctioning; hence, there is no video accessible. According to Munjal, a nursing student went missing on the night of July 22–23, 2025, after scaling the hostel wall and returned the next day between 10 and 11 AM after being missing all night. He had filed an RTI to obtain copies of the CCTV footage and the complaint in this regard, but the administration denied his request, claiming that the cameras were malfunctioning.
No answer on hostel campus footage.
Chairman Ashwini Kumar Munjal remarked that the PGI management simply stated that “the main gate’s CCTV camera was out of order.” However, no answer was given regarding the footage from the cameras installed inside the hostel campus. This raises serious questions as to why the cameras at such a sensitive location were out of order. There is also a suspicion that the information is being withheld to hide important evidence.
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