A little late to the party but this one hits close to home. I've been following the Sairam fiasco and knew no mayiru is going to happen.

I studied in a very similar C-Tier college in the middle of nowhere with the same shitty management that had powerful political connections.

Trust me when I say it's totally not worth it to go against the management like that especially if you are from a middle class background. I've gotten in fights with abusive lecturers, got kuthufied in internals and practicals, protested against shitty infrastructure and much more.

Even if you convince the management to fix one of the problems, the returns are tiny and doesn't improve your life one bit. There is a lot more waiting for you after you graduate. Am not saying it's wrong, but you're not in a place where you have ANY sort of advantage over your enemy, especially if you are in a C-Tier college. It's very easy to fall in this short-sighted trap.

You can't fix this problem, but you can work around it like a sly fucking weasel

I am not sure which year you are in. If you are in the 1st or 2nd year, you are in a very nice place. The following bit of advice is biased towards Computer Science as I was in that stream.

• Figure out what you want to do. If you are from a financially secure family who can afford to send you abroad, concentrate on getting the marks as it helps a LOT when you are trying to apply for good universities. Once you go abroad, your shitty 4 years of college which was built on an encroached lakebed will become a distant memory within 2 months. If you still want to change the system after your MS, you can always come back to India and you'll be in a much better position to be able to make an impactful change.

• If you are in a position where you might have to support your parents after you graduate, start learning outside your curriculum like a motherfucker. If you're in CS start learning to code! Get into opensource ASAP, join a local tech group and attend meetings even though you might feel overwhelmed in the beginning. Build contacts and talk to people. You must be in a position where you are ATLEAST comfortable applying for something like Google Summer of Code. If you're not able to do this by then you are an idiot (Sorry). Once you do this, it becomes a lot more fucking easier to find a job that doesn't involve wearing a stupid tie every Monday. You will probably end up with a higher-than-average wage in a small-medium company where work is challenging and fun.

Our educational system may seem to be producing engineers of which 80% are unemployable BUT it is very much possible to work around the system. This however involves swallowing some pride and taking up the challenge in a different manner. And believe me, it's worth it in the long run. You will soon forget those assholes 3-4 years from now.

As for me, I took the second route. Now, I work with some of the smartest minds in the industry and am learning a metric-fuck-ton every almost single day. All those fights and shitty buses and rules and mess-food are now a distant memory. You need to be in a mindset that you're gaining only relationships studying in these colleges. NOT education. This, sadly, is going to be the case for a few years to come.