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the scuttling of reservation, but also the lowest number of .
mandatory in law and not out gf concern for expanding.
OBC students getting admitted to the campus in many .
educational opportunities..
years. Numerous hurdles have been placed againstfulfilling the 27°/o reservation, which thoroughly reveals the On this J)oint, there is a conspiracy of silence across thestate's as well as the JNU administrati)(l's feudal-casteist political spectrum. The move for a mandatory seatnature. Equally important is to understand the role of JNU increase met no resistance from 'progressive left' SFI-Student Union leadership's role in ensuring implementation AISA, who brandished the phrase "27°/o OBCof 27°/o ·reservation ·in our campus. Full implementation of reservation with 54°/o seat increase" with nearly asthe quota qn campus would have required a consistent, · much enthusiasm as the YFE itself. Far frommilitant and uncompromising students' struggle. Quite questioning this logic, CPI(M) in the parliament, and SAunfortunately for the students in general and the deprived as well as AISA in the campus vehemently endorsed itstudents in particular, the role ofJNUSU led by AISA has by daiming that the seat increase will benefit studentsbeen of compromise and collaboration with this anti-from all sections. Significantly, the 54°/o seat~increasereservation administration, which have finally resulted in a made the actual implementation of reservation aregressive admission policy and gross violations in logistical nightmare, postponing it till the requisiteimplementation of reservation this year. At this moment it is infrastructural changes can be made. Given the state's 'important to take a look at how the reservations and seat reluctance to spend more money on education, andincrease issue have developed on the campus and beyond. given that in the last SO years seats couldn't beincreased to accommodate students from educationally.
In whose interest is 54°/o seat increase? It has .
~ackward sections, such huge increase ofseats at one.
provided an excuse for the administration to implement .
go has proved to be impossible..
OBC reservation in aphased manner, dting lack ofinfrastructure. In the original draft Bill, seat increase The JNU administration has used this verywas not mandatory. Instead it was an option left to the excuse of lack of resources and infrastructure indiscretion of the particular educational institution. The implementing mandatory 54°/o seat increase, toVeerappa Moily Committee was constituted to look into seat scuttle 27°/o reservation at one go. In theincrease as a response to the highly regressive and casteist agreement signed between the administration and'protests' by upper caste students looking to maintain their JNUSU after the April agitation the administrationcaste interests. It was only after this that the seat increase committed to implement 27o/o reservation in onewas made mandatory. This demand originatedfrom and go and 54°/o seat inc"rease in a phased manner.was carried through byanti-reservation forces such as YF~ However in May, MHRD rejected this procedure decidedto be supported laterbyboth AISA andSR. by the Academic Coundl. An emergency AC.
t There is certainly nothing wrong with any move to expand meeting then ~ecided for re~ervation in a phased . .
c manner-12°/o OBC resetvation with a.
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educational opportunity through establishing new.
a, corresponding seat increase of 18°/o, in blatant >.m institutions and enhandng the capacity of the present ones. violation of agreement that the JNU It.
What is objectionable about the mandatory seat increase is.
ao administration signed with JNUSU. The JNUSU at.
its being made a necessary precondition forreservation..
The mandatory 54°/o seat increase has been introduced to this point did nothing but a couple of token protests leat safeguard upper caste privilege and hegemony in higher and instead used the excuse of legalities and "Jaw of \ISthe land" as a pretext to avoid criticizitig.and ,.
education. Had the OBC reservation been implemented.
without seat increase, it would have reduced the general confronting a regressive turn of events. .
seats by 27°/o. The fact is that tl1e . .mg.
.
'general student' is The current stat us of reservations in JNU: Over.
always a particular student-the upper caste student: the years, due to the reluctance ofJNUSU leadership the.
has.
·centuries of social and educatjonai backwardness thrust. whether it is AI.SA or SFI, the administration has notupon the vast majority have ensured that general seats are been made answerable for the gross violations tn the 'JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2008 ID-48379
.
( .
-: 0,..., '"' -.
\ .: \ .
L. .
AD .
u~.
W' .
....
.
F1 .
\r.
c ( Ever since the announcement of 27°/o OBC reservatjons in de facto reserved for the upper castes. The Act ensured.
2006, the progressive sections of the JNU student.
I that not a single seat in the general category would be.
community have been fighting for its full implementation. reduced while implementing 27°/o OBC reservation. ThisHowever, what we have seen unfold this year is not just .
is the real reason behind making the seat increase -.
the scuttling of reservation, but also the lowest number of .
mandatory in law and not out gf concern for expanding.
OBC students getting admitted to the campus in many .
educational opportunities..
years. Numerous hurdles have been placed againstfulfilling the 27°/o reservation, which thoroughly reveals the On this J)oint, there is a conspiracy of silence across thestate's as well as the JNU administrati)(l's feudal-casteist political spectrum. The move for a mandatory seatnature. Equally important is to understand the role of JNU increase met no resistance from 'progressive left' SFI-Student Union leadership's role in ensuring implementation AISA, who brandished the phrase "27°/o OBCof 27°/o ·reservation ·in our campus. Full implementation of reservation with 54°/o seat increase" with nearly asthe quota qn campus would have required a consistent, · much enthusiasm as the YFE itself. Far frommilitant and uncompromising students' struggle. Quite questioning this logic, CPI(M) in the parliament, and SAunfortunately for the students in general and the deprived as well as AISA in the campus vehemently endorsed itstudents in particular, the role ofJNUSU led by AISA has by daiming that the seat increase will benefit studentsbeen of compromise and collaboration with this anti-from all sections. Significantly, the 54°/o seat~increasereservation administration, which have finally resulted in a made the actual implementation of reservation aregressive admission policy and gross violations in logistical nightmare, postponing it till the requisiteimplementation of reservation this year. At this moment it is infrastructural changes can be made. Given the state's 'important to take a look at how the reservations and seat reluctance to spend more money on education, andincrease issue have developed on the campus and beyond. given that in the last SO years seats couldn't beincreased to accommodate students from educationally.
In whose interest is 54°/o seat increase? It has .
~ackward sections, such huge increase ofseats at one.
provided an excuse for the administration to implement .
go has proved to be impossible..
OBC reservation in aphased manner, dting lack ofinfrastructure. In the original draft Bill, seat increase The JNU administration has used this verywas not mandatory. Instead it was an option left to the excuse of lack of resources and infrastructure indiscretion of the particular educational institution. The implementing mandatory 54°/o seat increase, toVeerappa Moily Committee was constituted to look into seat scuttle 27°/o reservation at one go. In theincrease as a response to the highly regressive and casteist agreement signed between the administration and'protests' by upper caste students looking to maintain their JNUSU after the April agitation the administrationcaste interests. It was only after this that the seat increase committed to implement 27o/o reservation in onewas made mandatory. This demand originatedfrom and go and 54°/o seat inc"rease in a phased manner.was carried through byanti-reservation forces such as YF~ However in May, MHRD rejected this procedure decidedto be supported laterbyboth AISA andSR. by the Academic Coundl. An emergency AC.
t There is certainly nothing wrong with any move to expand meeting then ~ecided for re~ervation in a phased . .
c manner-12°/o OBC resetvation with a.
.
educational opportunity through establishing new.
a, corresponding seat increase of 18°/o, in blatant >.m institutions and enhandng the capacity of the present ones. violation of agreement that the JNU It.
What is objectionable about the mandatory seat increase is.
ao administration signed with JNUSU. The JNUSU at.
its being made a necessary precondition forreservation..
The mandatory 54°/o seat increase has been introduced to this point did nothing but a couple of token protests leat safeguard upper caste privilege and hegemony in higher and instead used the excuse of legalities and "Jaw of \ISthe land" as a pretext to avoid criticizitig.and ,.
education. Had the OBC reservation been implemented.
without seat increase, it would have reduced the general confronting a regressive turn of events. .
seats by 27°/o. The fact is that tl1e . .mg.
.
'general student' is The current stat us of reservations in JNU: Over.
always a particular student-the upper caste student: the years, due to the reluctance ofJNUSU leadership the.
has.
·centuries of social and educatjonai backwardness thrust. whether it is AI.SA or SFI, the administration has notupon the vast majority have ensured that general seats are been made answerable for the gross violations tn the 'JNU .
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