PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-46247
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viciousness and abuses far removed forthe.
students in each school; increasing the amount offunds .
at stake. Their misplaced hostility againstfor readers/writers to VH students, and expanding the . .
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strengthened the JNU administration to contitllt.
Helen Keller unitwith more functional computers. Most casteist tricks and to spread 'confusion' on the 1-_ .,.~?"f". ;,:::' ,.,f.
significantly, for the first time in April 2008, JNU the historic 7th Sep 201 0 Delhi HC verdict, SF\-~'/.J.,# ~~-;.-q' "~administration, in a wr1tten agreement with JNUSU, "';;' --z.
shocked thatAISA's position had been validated by the\\, . ;promised to ensure representatJon ofPH students that it did not even welcome the verdict for48 hours!.
in a decision making body like the Campus.
\ .
Development Committee. Resisting A Range ofCommerciallstlon MO'ftl .
Elected Student Representation in Academic AI SA in JNU has consistently led struggles for Council and Board ofStudies: During 2004-2005, .
democratization ofthis campus, and in defence of the riglls JNUSU led successful struggles to ensure elected of the most deprived sections of our society. student representation in the decision-making bodies .
Kicking OutNestle. ResistingCorporateTakeoyer;.
of the University-theAcademic Council (AC) and Board of Studies (BoS), and forced a reluctant HRD Ministry Throughout the country, we are right now seeing,a .
to finally approve it September 2006. movement resisting the entry of FDI in the retail sector. .
I For the student community in JNU, this is no new.
.
Fighting Casteist 'Cut..Off' Ploy, Realising OBC .
struggle. In April 2004, a 24x7 Nestle outlet was set up.
Reservations on campus as a result of a dubious agreement between .
In 2006, when 'Youth for Equality' took up an ugly and the SFI-Ied JNUSU of 2002-2003 and the JNU .
casteist campaign against OBC quotas in higher education .
administration. AISA immediately started a popular institutes, AI SA confronted them every inch of the way with movement against this Nestle Outlet. Though SFI a 34-day pro-reservation hungerstrike and a consistent .
defended the Nestle outlet till the very end, the studentcampaign of public meetings, debates, film screenings. A community threw out the Nestle after a protractedmore serious challenge was posed in 2008, when the actual movement. In the historic UGBM of January 2005. 544process of implementation of OBC reservations started. The students voted against the Nestle outlet. while SFI withJNU Administration adopted a highly casteist and 114 cadres stood in shameful defense of Nestle. Atalldiscriminatory trick by misinterpreting the Supreme Court subsequentjunctures, too, AISA has resolutely upheldprescribed 'cut-off criterion for OBC students. This led to proclaimed that shops and campus spaces should.
massive non-fulfillment and subsequent transfer of more than 400 OBC seats to general category during 2008-2011. be allotted to socially deserving sections rather than to corporate interests..
Right from 2008 itself, the administration's .
Interpretation of 'cut-off' was robustly challenged by Movement for Workers'Right s:AISAin JNUSU led the AJSA-Ied JNUSU. Through repeated demonstrations, a historic movement in 2006 and 2007 for ensuring hunger strikes and public meetings, by mobilizing students, workers' rights and minimum wages in JNU. teachers and legal experts, a protracted struggle was waged. Consequently, the JNU administration was forced to Along with numerous protest actions. AI SA flied extensive rewrite all its illegal contracts and ensure the payment RTis and collected admission data for 25 centres to nail the of minimum wages. Interestingly. SFI "dissociated itself JNU administration's ploys; vve contacted progressive voices from the movement and demanded Proctorial Enquiry in JNU and beyond-mcludmg academics, lawyers and against the student .protestors who were rusticated during the movement for supporting the workers'.
bureaucrats-who extended crucial support. Three years of struggle and painstaking research movement! finally let our case be proved, first in the Delhi High 24x7 Health Centre facility: In Sept 2009, AISA-led.
.
Court in Sep. 2011 and then In the Apex Court 1n Aug. JNUSU launched a massive agitation for better health 2011. The historic Supreme Court verdict of 18 August 2011 facilities in JNU. Following this movemen~the insensitive .
has finally put an end to the attempts to steal OBC seats administration was forced to agree for the first time to through the faulty ucut-off" criteria not just in JNU but in all keep the JNU Health Centre open all night and arrange .
central universities across the country. Thus, a struggle for a fully-equipped ambulance round the clock. that began with AISA's initiatives in JNU and fought against all odds, led to a verdict of national Even after the SC stay order in 2008, AISA has played a crucial role In mobilizing students of JNU against a.
significance that will NOW ensure CORRECT .
barrage of anti-student assaults by the 8.8. Bhattacharyaimplementation of OBC reservations for the ENTIRE administration. In 2009-10, the administration:country. .
Tried to rent out the ecologically fragile PSR rocks toThroughout this long and tough struggle, the student .
advertisement agencies..
community witnessed the highly irresponsible and hostile .
Installed electricity meters in Koyna hostel and tried torole of organisations like SFI and DSU. While claiming extract user charges for electricity from students..
themselves to bepro-reservation, they trained all their energy .
againstAISA rather than against the casteist 'cut-off' ploy of Allowed a Maruti franchisee to advertise and sell cars right inside the Academic Complex..
the JNU administration. They refused to even acknowledge 'Food Court' with.
the centrality of the 'cut-off1 problem till as late as March Proposed a 'plan' to set up a massive 2010. Instead they ran a vitriolic campaign againstAISAand 10 canteens near the JNU library that was not only JNUSU's efforts. All theirleaflets during 2008-2010 will absurd and unnecessary, but would also have entailed remain as classic Collector's Items of political II massive deforestation. --.
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-46247
.
viciousness and abuses far removed forthe.
students in each school; increasing the amount offunds .
at stake. Their misplaced hostility againstfor readers/writers to VH students, and expanding the . .
.
strengthened the JNU administration to contitllt.
Helen Keller unitwith more functional computers. Most casteist tricks and to spread 'confusion' on the 1-_ .,.~?"f". ;,:::' ,.,f.
significantly, for the first time in April 2008, JNU the historic 7th Sep 201 0 Delhi HC verdict, SF\-~'/.J.,# ~~-;.-q' "~administration, in a wr1tten agreement with JNUSU, "';;' --z.
shocked thatAISA's position had been validated by the\\, . ;promised to ensure representatJon ofPH students that it did not even welcome the verdict for48 hours!.
in a decision making body like the Campus.
\ .
Development Committee. Resisting A Range ofCommerciallstlon MO'ftl .
Elected Student Representation in Academic AI SA in JNU has consistently led struggles for Council and Board ofStudies: During 2004-2005, .
democratization ofthis campus, and in defence of the riglls JNUSU led successful struggles to ensure elected of the most deprived sections of our society. student representation in the decision-making bodies .
Kicking OutNestle. ResistingCorporateTakeoyer;.
of the University-theAcademic Council (AC) and Board of Studies (BoS), and forced a reluctant HRD Ministry Throughout the country, we are right now seeing,a .
to finally approve it September 2006. movement resisting the entry of FDI in the retail sector. .
I For the student community in JNU, this is no new.
.
Fighting Casteist 'Cut..Off' Ploy, Realising OBC .
struggle. In April 2004, a 24x7 Nestle outlet was set up.
Reservations on campus as a result of a dubious agreement between .
In 2006, when 'Youth for Equality' took up an ugly and the SFI-Ied JNUSU of 2002-2003 and the JNU .
casteist campaign against OBC quotas in higher education .
administration. AISA immediately started a popular institutes, AI SA confronted them every inch of the way with movement against this Nestle Outlet. Though SFI a 34-day pro-reservation hungerstrike and a consistent .
defended the Nestle outlet till the very end, the studentcampaign of public meetings, debates, film screenings. A community threw out the Nestle after a protractedmore serious challenge was posed in 2008, when the actual movement. In the historic UGBM of January 2005. 544process of implementation of OBC reservations started. The students voted against the Nestle outlet. while SFI withJNU Administration adopted a highly casteist and 114 cadres stood in shameful defense of Nestle. Atalldiscriminatory trick by misinterpreting the Supreme Court subsequentjunctures, too, AISA has resolutely upheldprescribed 'cut-off criterion for OBC students. This led to proclaimed that shops and campus spaces should.
massive non-fulfillment and subsequent transfer of more than 400 OBC seats to general category during 2008-2011. be allotted to socially deserving sections rather than to corporate interests..
Right from 2008 itself, the administration's .
Interpretation of 'cut-off' was robustly challenged by Movement for Workers'Right s:AISAin JNUSU led the AJSA-Ied JNUSU. Through repeated demonstrations, a historic movement in 2006 and 2007 for ensuring hunger strikes and public meetings, by mobilizing students, workers' rights and minimum wages in JNU. teachers and legal experts, a protracted struggle was waged. Consequently, the JNU administration was forced to Along with numerous protest actions. AI SA flied extensive rewrite all its illegal contracts and ensure the payment RTis and collected admission data for 25 centres to nail the of minimum wages. Interestingly. SFI "dissociated itself JNU administration's ploys; vve contacted progressive voices from the movement and demanded Proctorial Enquiry in JNU and beyond-mcludmg academics, lawyers and against the student .protestors who were rusticated during the movement for supporting the workers'.
bureaucrats-who extended crucial support. Three years of struggle and painstaking research movement! finally let our case be proved, first in the Delhi High 24x7 Health Centre facility: In Sept 2009, AISA-led.
.
Court in Sep. 2011 and then In the Apex Court 1n Aug. JNUSU launched a massive agitation for better health 2011. The historic Supreme Court verdict of 18 August 2011 facilities in JNU. Following this movemen~the insensitive .
has finally put an end to the attempts to steal OBC seats administration was forced to agree for the first time to through the faulty ucut-off" criteria not just in JNU but in all keep the JNU Health Centre open all night and arrange .
central universities across the country. Thus, a struggle for a fully-equipped ambulance round the clock. that began with AISA's initiatives in JNU and fought against all odds, led to a verdict of national Even after the SC stay order in 2008, AISA has played a crucial role In mobilizing students of JNU against a.
significance that will NOW ensure CORRECT .
barrage of anti-student assaults by the 8.8. Bhattacharyaimplementation of OBC reservations for the ENTIRE administration. In 2009-10, the administration:country. .
Tried to rent out the ecologically fragile PSR rocks toThroughout this long and tough struggle, the student .
advertisement agencies..
community witnessed the highly irresponsible and hostile .
Installed electricity meters in Koyna hostel and tried torole of organisations like SFI and DSU. While claiming extract user charges for electricity from students..
themselves to bepro-reservation, they trained all their energy .
againstAISA rather than against the casteist 'cut-off' ploy of Allowed a Maruti franchisee to advertise and sell cars right inside the Academic Complex..
the JNU administration. They refused to even acknowledge 'Food Court' with.
the centrality of the 'cut-off1 problem till as late as March Proposed a 'plan' to set up a massive 2010. Instead they ran a vitriolic campaign againstAISAand 10 canteens near the JNU library that was not only JNUSU's efforts. All theirleaflets during 2008-2010 will absurd and unnecessary, but would also have entailed remain as classic Collector's Items of political II massive deforestation. --.
.