Research students from the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-B), took their protest for fellowship stipend hikes outside the institute's Powai campus on Thursday. Around 700 candidates participated in the rally that began from Hostel 12 and ended in a human chain on the pavement outside with a candle march.

These students also showed their support to the nationwide movement by research candidates seeking 80 per cent hike in fellowships. The stipend for these students, which has remained the same for the past four years, was expected to be revised in December 2018. However, neither was there a revision, nor a discussion with students' bodies demanding the hike.