PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30814
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In the face of increasing neo-liberal assaults of fee-hike and fund-cut, JNUSU forced the administration to agree in principle to increase the MCM amount on the receipt of funds under the 12th plan, include the demand for extending the time period of the UGC non-net scholarship to cover the entire period of research in its 12th plan proposals to the UGC. JNUSU also ensured smooth SWITCHOVER from non-Net UGC scholarship to JRF/SRF so that students can avail the fellowship of higher amount for the maximum period. .
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JNUSUs vigilance in the admission process ensured the release second lists this year for fulfilling mandated reservation. .
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Administrative High-handedness was defeated in Koyna, Shipra, Yamuna .
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Attempts at Fee-hike and User Charges in Mahanadi and Yamuna have been stalled. .
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Workers rights were vigilantly defended at each juncture by reversing retrenchment and defending correct wages and ESI/PF rights. .
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It is vital that the new JNUSU carry forward the initiatives set in place by the outgoing AISA-led JNUSU, and also forge new struggles in the face of an overall atmosphere of curtailment of students rights and campus democracy. It is time to expand the continuing struggle for Social Inclusion -by forcing the JNU administration to abide by its promise of increasing MCM from 12th plan, by ensuring the translated reading materials, by democratising EOO and giving it statutory representation and power, transparency in evaluation and regular timely feed-back of mid-term evaluations, addressing drop-out rates, defending GSCASH in the face of the undemocratic provisions of the newly passed bill on sexual harassment at workplaces, alleviating educational deprivation and underrepresentation of minorities as recommended by several expert committees (like Sachar Committee and Raganath Mishra commission) through reservation and deprivation points, fellowship on the lines of the RGNF for the PH students, defeating periodic moves of imposing user charges and feehike; ensuring better Infrastructural Facilities by speedy starting of New Hostel Construction and reversing undemocratic hostel policies, expansion of health centre facilities, continuing up gradation of the library, instituting JNU Press, expansion of cultural and sports infrastructure along with ensuring and defending mandatory wages and rights of the workers on campus among several other issues. .
On the strength of our struggles during the last JNUSU and our future agenda AISA is appealing to the students of JNU to Re-elect AISA to JNUSU. .
From the very beginning, AISA in JNUSU has played a major role in achieving historic policy-level changes. We have been at the forefront of struggles for social inclusion and justice whether these be the struggle for deprivation points in JNUs admission policy (1993-94), for providing recognition to Madarsa certificates (2007-08), or against the faulty and Illegal Cut-Off Criterion through which the JNU administration was scuttling the proper implementation of OBC reservations (2008-2011). Similarly, any attempt at corporate takeover of campus spaces has been firmly defeated by students struggles in which AISA and AISAs JNUSU representatives have played the leading role: whether this be the robust resistance to the administrations plans to introduce privatization in JNU (1995), the rejection of the Nestle and Café Coffee Day outlets (2005 and 2009), or the struggle which forced the administration to take back its schemes to extract user charges for electricity or to rent out PSR for commercial purposes. .
These struggles have been part of AISAs political vision that has never seen JNU or the JNUSU as an island removed from the social and political realities of the surrounding world. In keeping with this, AISA has always expressed active solidarity with peoples movements and struggles across the country and the world. In the last 6 months, AISA and AISA-led JNUSU has actively forged links with peoples movements across the country spearheading the student-youth movement against corruption and corporate plunder, standing with the people of Koodankulam fighting against a nuclear power plant, with the Rohingya refugees from Burma, with the Muslim youth from Darbhanga who are being branded as terrorists, against the racial profiling and discrimination faced by people from the north-east, against state repression on Chhattisgarhs adivasis. A JNUSU led by AISA will boldly continue to offer active support and solidarity with struggling people in the country. .
Even as the AISA-led JNUSU has been striving to advance students and peoples struggles on a variety of fronts, it has faced blind opposition and hurdles from not only right-wing outfits NSUI, ABVP and YFE and the Administration, but also from the SFI-JNU. Faced with successive defeats at the hands of AISA in 2007 and 2012, the SFI in JNU has undergone a split, with one faction criticising CPI(M) on the issue of support for Pranab Mukherjee. However, this posture is merely a change of costume, motivated by electoral opportunism, .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-30814
.
.
In the face of increasing neo-liberal assaults of fee-hike and fund-cut, JNUSU forced the administration to agree in principle to increase the MCM amount on the receipt of funds under the 12th plan, include the demand for extending the time period of the UGC non-net scholarship to cover the entire period of research in its 12th plan proposals to the UGC. JNUSU also ensured smooth SWITCHOVER from non-Net UGC scholarship to JRF/SRF so that students can avail the fellowship of higher amount for the maximum period. .
.
.
JNUSUs vigilance in the admission process ensured the release second lists this year for fulfilling mandated reservation. .
.
.
Administrative High-handedness was defeated in Koyna, Shipra, Yamuna .
.
.
Attempts at Fee-hike and User Charges in Mahanadi and Yamuna have been stalled. .
.
.
Workers rights were vigilantly defended at each juncture by reversing retrenchment and defending correct wages and ESI/PF rights. .
.
.
It is vital that the new JNUSU carry forward the initiatives set in place by the outgoing AISA-led JNUSU, and also forge new struggles in the face of an overall atmosphere of curtailment of students rights and campus democracy. It is time to expand the continuing struggle for Social Inclusion -by forcing the JNU administration to abide by its promise of increasing MCM from 12th plan, by ensuring the translated reading materials, by democratising EOO and giving it statutory representation and power, transparency in evaluation and regular timely feed-back of mid-term evaluations, addressing drop-out rates, defending GSCASH in the face of the undemocratic provisions of the newly passed bill on sexual harassment at workplaces, alleviating educational deprivation and underrepresentation of minorities as recommended by several expert committees (like Sachar Committee and Raganath Mishra commission) through reservation and deprivation points, fellowship on the lines of the RGNF for the PH students, defeating periodic moves of imposing user charges and feehike; ensuring better Infrastructural Facilities by speedy starting of New Hostel Construction and reversing undemocratic hostel policies, expansion of health centre facilities, continuing up gradation of the library, instituting JNU Press, expansion of cultural and sports infrastructure along with ensuring and defending mandatory wages and rights of the workers on campus among several other issues. .
On the strength of our struggles during the last JNUSU and our future agenda AISA is appealing to the students of JNU to Re-elect AISA to JNUSU. .
From the very beginning, AISA in JNUSU has played a major role in achieving historic policy-level changes. We have been at the forefront of struggles for social inclusion and justice whether these be the struggle for deprivation points in JNUs admission policy (1993-94), for providing recognition to Madarsa certificates (2007-08), or against the faulty and Illegal Cut-Off Criterion through which the JNU administration was scuttling the proper implementation of OBC reservations (2008-2011). Similarly, any attempt at corporate takeover of campus spaces has been firmly defeated by students struggles in which AISA and AISAs JNUSU representatives have played the leading role: whether this be the robust resistance to the administrations plans to introduce privatization in JNU (1995), the rejection of the Nestle and Café Coffee Day outlets (2005 and 2009), or the struggle which forced the administration to take back its schemes to extract user charges for electricity or to rent out PSR for commercial purposes. .
These struggles have been part of AISAs political vision that has never seen JNU or the JNUSU as an island removed from the social and political realities of the surrounding world. In keeping with this, AISA has always expressed active solidarity with peoples movements and struggles across the country and the world. In the last 6 months, AISA and AISA-led JNUSU has actively forged links with peoples movements across the country spearheading the student-youth movement against corruption and corporate plunder, standing with the people of Koodankulam fighting against a nuclear power plant, with the Rohingya refugees from Burma, with the Muslim youth from Darbhanga who are being branded as terrorists, against the racial profiling and discrimination faced by people from the north-east, against state repression on Chhattisgarhs adivasis. A JNUSU led by AISA will boldly continue to offer active support and solidarity with struggling people in the country. .
Even as the AISA-led JNUSU has been striving to advance students and peoples struggles on a variety of fronts, it has faced blind opposition and hurdles from not only right-wing outfits NSUI, ABVP and YFE and the Administration, but also from the SFI-JNU. Faced with successive defeats at the hands of AISA in 2007 and 2012, the SFI in JNU has undergone a split, with one faction criticising CPI(M) on the issue of support for Pranab Mukherjee. However, this posture is merely a change of costume, motivated by electoral opportunism, .
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