Food with cockroaches, flies served at IIIT Hyderabad, allege students

Amid growing concerns over food quality, a post on X alleges that students at IIIT Hyderabad had to eat meals containing cockroaches and flies. He also shared an image supporting his claims where a salad covered in flies was seen.

Shedding light on the issue, a former undergraduate researcher at IIIT



Hyderabad, Shashwat Goel, shared a series of notes on X. In one of his posts, he wrote, “Students are forced to subscribe to the college’mess’ (apt word). Cockroaches in food, flies, lack of hand wash, etc. are just meant to be ignored for years. The fact that there’s less food than oil is somehow not even a major concern.”