PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-54014
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students' forum JNUSU pressur' d th d . . . .
following a JNUSU-Ied IZe e a ~1n_1strat1on to take holistic steps to handle the situation. Moreover, .
been inc d t R movement, the ex1stmg readers' and escorts' allowance for PHNH students has .
rease o s 2000 per month. .
../ Strengthenino GSCASH· F th fi · . . ..
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=~~~~!::1.....!:::~~.2!!· or e 1rst t1me m the history of JNU, an institutionalized mechanism to mtroduce ~~w stut?ents to GSCASH and JNU's gender-sensitive ethos has been put in place. Following JNUSU's ~rven_IOns, mandatory gender sensitization and orientation classes were introduced from this year, where .
vanous ISsues related to sexual harassment and gender were discussed . .
../ Steps for A~ademic Rejuvenation: JNUSU organised school-level braiAstorming sessions with students and faculty, towards a broad academic rejuvenation in JNU. Before the BoS meetings, these brainstorming sessions c:eated a platform wh~r~ comrr:ton students (not just elected representatives) and faculty members could dl~cuss senous academ1c 1ssues m a transparent, non-hierarchical, democratic manner. A broad consensus was bUilt on v~rious issues like the need to introduce new courses, reasons for high drop-out rates, and the need to democrat1~e the classroom atmosphere. As a result, when JNUSU Councillors brought up these issues in the BoS meetmgs, they were supported by large number of faculty members, who saw merit in the students' arguments and demands. As a consequence, several new courses are in the process of being introduced. .
../ Vigilance in the Admission process: As a result of JNUSU's timely interventions, the JNU administration released second lists this year, in order to fulfill reservations and the intake mandated by JNU's Academic Council. .
../ Fighting Administrative High-handedness: JNUSU also repeatedly intervened and protested against the authoritarian behavior of various hostel wardens in Yamuna, Koyna and Shipra and in a united struggle with the residents of Yamuna forced the removal of the Yamuna hostel warden. .
../ Ensuring workers' rights: From 2006 onwards, the JNUSU has been consistently fighting for workers' rights in the campus. During this tenure too, time and again JNUSU had to intervene to ensure a variety of demands. 16 safai karamcharis working with Garima were terminated by the administration; JNUSU immediately intervened and ensured that all of them were taken back. Moreover. JNUSU had to repeatedly intervene to ensure that arrears due to workers (from salary increments announced in April 2011 and November 2011) were paid to them. Contractors had been dilly-dallying these payments for months together, and JNUSU finally managed to ensure workers' arrears only a couple of months back. JNUSU has also raised the issue of legally mandated ESI/PF payments for all workers employed in JNU. .
For Better Infrastructure And Facilities .
../ Improved library facilities: The JNUSU has been taking several initiatives to improve the JNU library and make it student friendly. Since the last four years there have been many urgent pending issues like purchasing of books, transparency and accountability in the purchase of books, improving infrastructure, upgrading and expanding the Helen Keller unit and the cyber library. The student community will remember that during the tenure of the previous Librarian the library witnessed saw huge pilferage and misuse of funds for the purchase of books which were neither recommended by the students nor the teachers. .
Keeping in mind these issues the JNUSU had organized an 'Open House' on 18th April, 2012. At the open house organised by JNUSU to discuss problems regarding the library, students directly raised several issues which were noted by the librarian, and this became a platform to articulate and build pressure for our demands. Following JNUSU's interventions, some of the issues on which the library has already started work are as follows: .
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Purchase of Books: Due to the huge pilferage and misuse of funds in the purchasing of books the library had virtually stopped purchasing books for the last three years. One of the major demands of the JNUSU regarding the library has been the purchasing of books. The LAC has approved the purchasing of almost 3700 new books worth 1.4 Crores. Some School/Centres had recommended very few books to be purchased by the library, JNUSU actively pursued concerned authorities in various Schools/Centres to ensure that all required books are recommended by them. .
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Renovation of Library: The library didn't spend the funds allocated to it for renovation under the 11th .
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Plan. It has now been decided that this money amounting to 72 lakhs will be used immediately for the renovations. JNUSU demanded that special care should be given to expand student facilities and make the library PHNH student friendly. .
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Renovation of Dholpur House: The tender for the purchase of new tables and chairs for Dholpur House reading room are in process. .
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Acquiring Digital Resources and Digitization: The library has procured e-books published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The library is going to access the digital databases. of various institutions in the days to come through which students are going to be able to access the digital resources in terms of e-books and journals. The JNU library has started the process of digitizing Phd Theses after the completion of which Mphil. Dissertations will be digitized. This had been a major demand of the student community, especially the Visually Challenged students. .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2012 ID-54014
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students' forum JNUSU pressur' d th d . . . .
following a JNUSU-Ied IZe e a ~1n_1strat1on to take holistic steps to handle the situation. Moreover, .
been inc d t R movement, the ex1stmg readers' and escorts' allowance for PHNH students has .
rease o s 2000 per month. .
../ Strengthenino GSCASH· F th fi · . . ..
.
=~~~~!::1.....!:::~~.2!!· or e 1rst t1me m the history of JNU, an institutionalized mechanism to mtroduce ~~w stut?ents to GSCASH and JNU's gender-sensitive ethos has been put in place. Following JNUSU's ~rven_IOns, mandatory gender sensitization and orientation classes were introduced from this year, where .
vanous ISsues related to sexual harassment and gender were discussed . .
../ Steps for A~ademic Rejuvenation: JNUSU organised school-level braiAstorming sessions with students and faculty, towards a broad academic rejuvenation in JNU. Before the BoS meetings, these brainstorming sessions c:eated a platform wh~r~ comrr:ton students (not just elected representatives) and faculty members could dl~cuss senous academ1c 1ssues m a transparent, non-hierarchical, democratic manner. A broad consensus was bUilt on v~rious issues like the need to introduce new courses, reasons for high drop-out rates, and the need to democrat1~e the classroom atmosphere. As a result, when JNUSU Councillors brought up these issues in the BoS meetmgs, they were supported by large number of faculty members, who saw merit in the students' arguments and demands. As a consequence, several new courses are in the process of being introduced. .
../ Vigilance in the Admission process: As a result of JNUSU's timely interventions, the JNU administration released second lists this year, in order to fulfill reservations and the intake mandated by JNU's Academic Council. .
../ Fighting Administrative High-handedness: JNUSU also repeatedly intervened and protested against the authoritarian behavior of various hostel wardens in Yamuna, Koyna and Shipra and in a united struggle with the residents of Yamuna forced the removal of the Yamuna hostel warden. .
../ Ensuring workers' rights: From 2006 onwards, the JNUSU has been consistently fighting for workers' rights in the campus. During this tenure too, time and again JNUSU had to intervene to ensure a variety of demands. 16 safai karamcharis working with Garima were terminated by the administration; JNUSU immediately intervened and ensured that all of them were taken back. Moreover. JNUSU had to repeatedly intervene to ensure that arrears due to workers (from salary increments announced in April 2011 and November 2011) were paid to them. Contractors had been dilly-dallying these payments for months together, and JNUSU finally managed to ensure workers' arrears only a couple of months back. JNUSU has also raised the issue of legally mandated ESI/PF payments for all workers employed in JNU. .
For Better Infrastructure And Facilities .
../ Improved library facilities: The JNUSU has been taking several initiatives to improve the JNU library and make it student friendly. Since the last four years there have been many urgent pending issues like purchasing of books, transparency and accountability in the purchase of books, improving infrastructure, upgrading and expanding the Helen Keller unit and the cyber library. The student community will remember that during the tenure of the previous Librarian the library witnessed saw huge pilferage and misuse of funds for the purchase of books which were neither recommended by the students nor the teachers. .
Keeping in mind these issues the JNUSU had organized an 'Open House' on 18th April, 2012. At the open house organised by JNUSU to discuss problems regarding the library, students directly raised several issues which were noted by the librarian, and this became a platform to articulate and build pressure for our demands. Following JNUSU's interventions, some of the issues on which the library has already started work are as follows: .
.
Purchase of Books: Due to the huge pilferage and misuse of funds in the purchasing of books the library had virtually stopped purchasing books for the last three years. One of the major demands of the JNUSU regarding the library has been the purchasing of books. The LAC has approved the purchasing of almost 3700 new books worth 1.4 Crores. Some School/Centres had recommended very few books to be purchased by the library, JNUSU actively pursued concerned authorities in various Schools/Centres to ensure that all required books are recommended by them. .
.
.
Renovation of Library: The library didn't spend the funds allocated to it for renovation under the 11th .
.
Plan. It has now been decided that this money amounting to 72 lakhs will be used immediately for the renovations. JNUSU demanded that special care should be given to expand student facilities and make the library PHNH student friendly. .
.
.
Renovation of Dholpur House: The tender for the purchase of new tables and chairs for Dholpur House reading room are in process. .
.
.
Acquiring Digital Resources and Digitization: The library has procured e-books published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The library is going to access the digital databases. of various institutions in the days to come through which students are going to be able to access the digital resources in terms of e-books and journals. The JNU library has started the process of digitizing Phd Theses after the completion of which Mphil. Dissertations will be digitized. This had been a major demand of the student community, especially the Visually Challenged students. .
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