PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2010 ID-11094
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AISA JNU Administration Reconfirms Its Casteist Character Once Again!.
Dean's Committee Decision on "Cut-Off" Criteria for OBC Reservation Upturned -.
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JNU Reverts Back to Its Earlier Faulty "Cut-Off" Criteria Under YFE Diktats!.
Unite To Defeat This Casteist Ploy To Scuttle OBC Reservation !.
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In a most shocking move today, the JNU administration has yet again attempted to tamper with the proper implemen-.
tation of OBC reservations and social justice in JNU. As the student community is well aware, a decision was taken at the.
Dean's committee's meeting of 17th June 2010 in favour of an admissions model that would ensure correct implementation of.
OBC reservations and fulfilment of OBC seats. Today (12th July), almost a month after this decision in favour of correct.
implementation of OBC reservations, the JNU administration called a hasty meeting of the same Dean's Committee,.
where its earlier decision was upturned and revoked. The Dean's Committee has now recommended that the JNU ad-.
ministration continue to follow the faulty, illegal recommendations of the Aditya Mukherjee committee which have led to.
massive non-fulfilment of OBC seats for the past two years..
.
This decision was apparently taken after a "legal notice" was sent by YFE's advocate Puneet Jain to the JNU administra-.
tion claiming that the admission model that JNU is planning to follow this year is `illegal' and violative of the Supreme Court.
directives vis-à-vis implementation of OBC reservations. Based on this "legal notice", the JNU administration sought the.
legal advice of two more lawyers (Mohinder JS Rupal and PP Rao). Both these lawyers as well as the JNU administration's.
own lawyer (not surprisingly) came to the opinion that the Dean's Committee had taken an "illegal and wrong" decision on.
June 17th and that JNU had indeed been following a correct model for the past two years! Therefore, the JNU administration.
called another meeting of the Dean's Committee, and the earlier decision was revoked - in effect ratifying the administra-.
tion's incorrect implementation of OBC reservations. Let us not forget that today's decision is also a shameful rejection.
of JNU's own Academic Council's decision to do away with the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's recommendations on.
OBC reservation..
.
The JNU administration might try to explain and justify this shocking and shameful volte-face, but the REAL reason is.
crystal clear. May we ask the JNU administration: if indeed there was some `legal ambiguity' why did the administration not.
seek ANY legal advice in the four long months since the AC meeting of 18th March, where the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's.
recommendations were clearly rejected? Why did the administration wait till the last minute, when all the results are ready.
and when the admission process is underway?.
.
May we also remind and warn the administration: a `legal notice' or a mere letter from a single lawyer questioning the.
`legality' of the JNU admissions process DOES NOT amount to a legal injunction, or a stay order from a court. It is merely.
the opinion expressed by a lawyer - if the casteist lobby can bring a couple of lawyers to defend its casteist interpretation of.
the Supreme Court judgement, the progressive sections in JNU can (and in fact have already done so) provide legal recom-.
mendations questioning the administration's position. It is indeed shameful that the JNU administration has wilfully chosen.
to selectively use `legal opinion' suitable to its well known casteist agenda!.
.
The student community has not forgotten that ever since the Dean's Committee came up with its decision in favour of.
correct implementation of OBC reservations, the YFE has consistently been attacking this decision. In the past week, YFE.
has come up with two leaflets abusing the Dean's Committee's pro-reservation decision. In its posters, the YFE had called the.
Dean's Committee's decision `illegal' and had in fact threatened to serve a legal notice against JNU. It is therefore obvious.
that the casteist lobby constituted by YFE and some sections in the faculty as well as in the JNU administration have together.
conspired to once more bring up the bogey of `legal ambiguity' to scuttle proper implementation of OBC reservations. What.
we have witnessed today is a well-thought out, well-planned game plan by the anti-reservation lobby..
.
The timing of Dean's Committee's volte-face also reveals the dubious game plan of this casteist lobby: Had the.
Dean's Committee not given a favourable verdict in June, the JNU administration was well aware that it would have to face.
massive opposition and resistance from progressive sections in JNU (including students as well as teachers). The adminis-.
tration knew full well that its position was legally untenable - the protracted debate in this campus on the correct method of.
implementation of OBC reservations had already been clearly clinched. Therefore, the only way out for the casteist lobby in.
the administration to once more scuttle OBC reservations was to wait till the last minute, and THEN create spurious confusion.
over some purported `legal ambiguity'!.
.
It is now the second week of July, and the evaluations of all the examination papers have been completed. JNU is on.
the verge of announcing its results for 2010-2011 - and clearly, those opposed to social justice and reservations in the ad-.
ministration have realised that the OBC quota is going to be fulfilled this year. And since this is complete anathema to the.
anti-reservationists, they have come up with this new ploy to delay the implementation of OBC reservations this year too..
.
The JNU administration seems determined and hell-bent to cross all limits in its single-minded endeavour to scuttle.
OBC reservations and social justice in JNU. It is determined to undermine every single democratic decision-making body.
in the campus - from the Dean's Committee, to the Academic Council, to the Executive Council - in its attempt to scuttle.
reservations. Nothing could be more shameful for an institution of JNU's reputation, which has had the long tradition of.
upholding social justice and fighting to ensure equality and democracy..
.
Ravi Prakash, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Atif, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNU.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2010 ID-11094
.
AISA JNU Administration Reconfirms Its Casteist Character Once Again!.
Dean's Committee Decision on "Cut-Off" Criteria for OBC Reservation Upturned -.
.
JNU Reverts Back to Its Earlier Faulty "Cut-Off" Criteria Under YFE Diktats!.
Unite To Defeat This Casteist Ploy To Scuttle OBC Reservation !.
.
In a most shocking move today, the JNU administration has yet again attempted to tamper with the proper implemen-.
tation of OBC reservations and social justice in JNU. As the student community is well aware, a decision was taken at the.
Dean's committee's meeting of 17th June 2010 in favour of an admissions model that would ensure correct implementation of.
OBC reservations and fulfilment of OBC seats. Today (12th July), almost a month after this decision in favour of correct.
implementation of OBC reservations, the JNU administration called a hasty meeting of the same Dean's Committee,.
where its earlier decision was upturned and revoked. The Dean's Committee has now recommended that the JNU ad-.
ministration continue to follow the faulty, illegal recommendations of the Aditya Mukherjee committee which have led to.
massive non-fulfilment of OBC seats for the past two years..
.
This decision was apparently taken after a "legal notice" was sent by YFE's advocate Puneet Jain to the JNU administra-.
tion claiming that the admission model that JNU is planning to follow this year is `illegal' and violative of the Supreme Court.
directives vis-à-vis implementation of OBC reservations. Based on this "legal notice", the JNU administration sought the.
legal advice of two more lawyers (Mohinder JS Rupal and PP Rao). Both these lawyers as well as the JNU administration's.
own lawyer (not surprisingly) came to the opinion that the Dean's Committee had taken an "illegal and wrong" decision on.
June 17th and that JNU had indeed been following a correct model for the past two years! Therefore, the JNU administration.
called another meeting of the Dean's Committee, and the earlier decision was revoked - in effect ratifying the administra-.
tion's incorrect implementation of OBC reservations. Let us not forget that today's decision is also a shameful rejection.
of JNU's own Academic Council's decision to do away with the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's recommendations on.
OBC reservation..
.
The JNU administration might try to explain and justify this shocking and shameful volte-face, but the REAL reason is.
crystal clear. May we ask the JNU administration: if indeed there was some `legal ambiguity' why did the administration not.
seek ANY legal advice in the four long months since the AC meeting of 18th March, where the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's.
recommendations were clearly rejected? Why did the administration wait till the last minute, when all the results are ready.
and when the admission process is underway?.
.
May we also remind and warn the administration: a `legal notice' or a mere letter from a single lawyer questioning the.
`legality' of the JNU admissions process DOES NOT amount to a legal injunction, or a stay order from a court. It is merely.
the opinion expressed by a lawyer - if the casteist lobby can bring a couple of lawyers to defend its casteist interpretation of.
the Supreme Court judgement, the progressive sections in JNU can (and in fact have already done so) provide legal recom-.
mendations questioning the administration's position. It is indeed shameful that the JNU administration has wilfully chosen.
to selectively use `legal opinion' suitable to its well known casteist agenda!.
.
The student community has not forgotten that ever since the Dean's Committee came up with its decision in favour of.
correct implementation of OBC reservations, the YFE has consistently been attacking this decision. In the past week, YFE.
has come up with two leaflets abusing the Dean's Committee's pro-reservation decision. In its posters, the YFE had called the.
Dean's Committee's decision `illegal' and had in fact threatened to serve a legal notice against JNU. It is therefore obvious.
that the casteist lobby constituted by YFE and some sections in the faculty as well as in the JNU administration have together.
conspired to once more bring up the bogey of `legal ambiguity' to scuttle proper implementation of OBC reservations. What.
we have witnessed today is a well-thought out, well-planned game plan by the anti-reservation lobby..
.
The timing of Dean's Committee's volte-face also reveals the dubious game plan of this casteist lobby: Had the.
Dean's Committee not given a favourable verdict in June, the JNU administration was well aware that it would have to face.
massive opposition and resistance from progressive sections in JNU (including students as well as teachers). The adminis-.
tration knew full well that its position was legally untenable - the protracted debate in this campus on the correct method of.
implementation of OBC reservations had already been clearly clinched. Therefore, the only way out for the casteist lobby in.
the administration to once more scuttle OBC reservations was to wait till the last minute, and THEN create spurious confusion.
over some purported `legal ambiguity'!.
.
It is now the second week of July, and the evaluations of all the examination papers have been completed. JNU is on.
the verge of announcing its results for 2010-2011 - and clearly, those opposed to social justice and reservations in the ad-.
ministration have realised that the OBC quota is going to be fulfilled this year. And since this is complete anathema to the.
anti-reservationists, they have come up with this new ploy to delay the implementation of OBC reservations this year too..
.
The JNU administration seems determined and hell-bent to cross all limits in its single-minded endeavour to scuttle.
OBC reservations and social justice in JNU. It is determined to undermine every single democratic decision-making body.
in the campus - from the Dean's Committee, to the Academic Council, to the Executive Council - in its attempt to scuttle.
reservations. Nothing could be more shameful for an institution of JNU's reputation, which has had the long tradition of.
upholding social justice and fighting to ensure equality and democracy..
.
Ravi Prakash, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Atif, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNU.
..