PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23258
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JNUSU congratulates the student community for participating in large numbers in the protest demonstration today at the UGC headquarters for better health facilities and a fully functional 24x7 health centre in JNU. The sorry state of JNUs health centre is no secret the 15,000 members of the JNU community who are dependent on this single health centre are witness to the rudimentary state of facilities available at the health centre. For the past few years, the JNUSU has been raising this issue with the JNU administration, to no avail. Shockingly, even after the tragic death of Aishwary Agarwal and Dr. Sarpuddeen, the JNU administration is shamefully refusing to take responsibility for providing even the most services mandatory in a residential campus like JNU. Whenever confronted with the crucial issue of providing better health care buying fully-equipped ambulances, employing doctors, nurses and paramedical staff, upgrading the infrastructure at our small health centre the JNU administration has always been ready with its stock excuse of lack of funds from the UGC. Today, following the protest demonstration, representatives of JNUSU met the UGC Chairman Prof. Thorat and other UGC officials. UGC Chairman has promised to look into our demands after cross checking the allocations already made to JNU so far. .
During the deliberations with the senior UGC officials it became abundantly clear that the JNU administration has been shamefully obfuscating facts and hiding behind the mask of lack of funds, in order to escape its responsibility and accountability. .
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We were informed that under the 11th Plan, JNU has been provided a lump sum to meet its entire expenses, and it is entirely up to the JNU administration to decide its priorities in how and where to allocate these funds. The UGC has not placed any restriction on the JNU administration in terms of who much expenditure can be made under each head. In other words, the JNU administrations skewed priorities vis-a-vis expenditure has once again been blatantly exposed. For this administration, plasma TVs, benches, tiled floorings, reflectors and beautification drives are more important that providing basic emergency health care in JNU. .
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We were also informed that under the 11th Plan, a sum of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned to JNU exclusively for upgrading the health infrastructure. JNUSU has already filed an application for documentary evidence of the same. .
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UGC also made it clear that while sanction of posts for health centre will require clearance both at the level of UGC and Ministry, the University administration is however free to expand the facilities by appointing doctors and other staff on contract basis for the time being utilising the available allocations. We were also informed that JNU administration never pursued the health centre related demands with the UGC beyond their initial overall proposal of XIth plan. .
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We challenge the JNU administration to make public in front of the entire JNU community, teachers, students and karmacharis, an honest statement of funds received in the Eleventh Plan, and also under what head they have decided to spend it. They must also clarify through which body they have taken such decisions. .
How ever, in this entire situation the worst sufferers are the students who have come to this residential campus from distant parts of the country, away from their families, where they do not have the minimum assurance of decent health facilities and proper support system. .
Today's university STRIKE and the large student participation at the Protest Demonstration at UGC was a fitting message to both the government of the day and the JNU administration, as well as to one of their loyal agents on campus, the NSUI. In a shamefully predictable manner, at a time when the entire JNU student community is engaged in a JNUSU-led struggle for better health facilities, the NSUI is busy deflecting the struggle and trying their level best to hide any uncomfortable exposure of their masters in the UPA government. NSUI, in a deliberate attempt to scuttle JNUSUs Protest Demonstration at the UGC, called for a so-called protest march in JNU itself at the SIT lawns at the same time. It is clear that the NSUI does not want the student community to raise its voice against the onslaughts on student rights and facilities that the UPA government is busy planning and implementing. The NSUIs agenda is far more dangerous and insidious than merely silently keeping away from the JNUSU-led struggle it is an attempt to keep the student community unaware of the real enemies of commercialisation and privatization, and also of the actual agents in the UPA government actively unleashing their anti-student policies on campuses all over the country. As we prepare ourselves for resisting the MHRDs latest directives on fee hikes and user charges, we need to completely expose and isolate these betrayers of the student movement. .
JNUSUs relay hunger strike on the crucial issue of better health facilities has completed seven days today. We are at a juncture when the entire JNU community students, teachers, karamcharis have expressed their anguish, anger and .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23258
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JNUSU congratulates the student community for participating in large numbers in the protest demonstration today at the UGC headquarters for better health facilities and a fully functional 24x7 health centre in JNU. The sorry state of JNUs health centre is no secret the 15,000 members of the JNU community who are dependent on this single health centre are witness to the rudimentary state of facilities available at the health centre. For the past few years, the JNUSU has been raising this issue with the JNU administration, to no avail. Shockingly, even after the tragic death of Aishwary Agarwal and Dr. Sarpuddeen, the JNU administration is shamefully refusing to take responsibility for providing even the most services mandatory in a residential campus like JNU. Whenever confronted with the crucial issue of providing better health care buying fully-equipped ambulances, employing doctors, nurses and paramedical staff, upgrading the infrastructure at our small health centre the JNU administration has always been ready with its stock excuse of lack of funds from the UGC. Today, following the protest demonstration, representatives of JNUSU met the UGC Chairman Prof. Thorat and other UGC officials. UGC Chairman has promised to look into our demands after cross checking the allocations already made to JNU so far. .
During the deliberations with the senior UGC officials it became abundantly clear that the JNU administration has been shamefully obfuscating facts and hiding behind the mask of lack of funds, in order to escape its responsibility and accountability. .
.
We were informed that under the 11th Plan, JNU has been provided a lump sum to meet its entire expenses, and it is entirely up to the JNU administration to decide its priorities in how and where to allocate these funds. The UGC has not placed any restriction on the JNU administration in terms of who much expenditure can be made under each head. In other words, the JNU administrations skewed priorities vis-a-vis expenditure has once again been blatantly exposed. For this administration, plasma TVs, benches, tiled floorings, reflectors and beautification drives are more important that providing basic emergency health care in JNU. .
.
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We were also informed that under the 11th Plan, a sum of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned to JNU exclusively for upgrading the health infrastructure. JNUSU has already filed an application for documentary evidence of the same. .
.
.
UGC also made it clear that while sanction of posts for health centre will require clearance both at the level of UGC and Ministry, the University administration is however free to expand the facilities by appointing doctors and other staff on contract basis for the time being utilising the available allocations. We were also informed that JNU administration never pursued the health centre related demands with the UGC beyond their initial overall proposal of XIth plan. .
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We challenge the JNU administration to make public in front of the entire JNU community, teachers, students and karmacharis, an honest statement of funds received in the Eleventh Plan, and also under what head they have decided to spend it. They must also clarify through which body they have taken such decisions. .
How ever, in this entire situation the worst sufferers are the students who have come to this residential campus from distant parts of the country, away from their families, where they do not have the minimum assurance of decent health facilities and proper support system. .
Today's university STRIKE and the large student participation at the Protest Demonstration at UGC was a fitting message to both the government of the day and the JNU administration, as well as to one of their loyal agents on campus, the NSUI. In a shamefully predictable manner, at a time when the entire JNU student community is engaged in a JNUSU-led struggle for better health facilities, the NSUI is busy deflecting the struggle and trying their level best to hide any uncomfortable exposure of their masters in the UPA government. NSUI, in a deliberate attempt to scuttle JNUSUs Protest Demonstration at the UGC, called for a so-called protest march in JNU itself at the SIT lawns at the same time. It is clear that the NSUI does not want the student community to raise its voice against the onslaughts on student rights and facilities that the UPA government is busy planning and implementing. The NSUIs agenda is far more dangerous and insidious than merely silently keeping away from the JNUSU-led struggle it is an attempt to keep the student community unaware of the real enemies of commercialisation and privatization, and also of the actual agents in the UPA government actively unleashing their anti-student policies on campuses all over the country. As we prepare ourselves for resisting the MHRDs latest directives on fee hikes and user charges, we need to completely expose and isolate these betrayers of the student movement. .
JNUSUs relay hunger strike on the crucial issue of better health facilities has completed seven days today. We are at a juncture when the entire JNU community students, teachers, karamcharis have expressed their anguish, anger and .
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