PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63154
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Onwards To The 29 Nov Protest Demo, ~·.~ ~ . .
25.11.07 ~Central Universities At UGC:DefeatThe Move OfStalling Rs.J000/5000 Fellowship andInstances of Administrative Insensitivity: Across Campuse~ .
The Dangerous Ploy OfFixing "Guidelines".
5000 fellowships, aPublic Meeting was organized by JNUSUwith researchscholars of other Central Universitieson 23Nov at JNUSU Onwards to the JNUSU's 29 Nov demonstration involving students of Central Universit1eS.~gainstthe stalling of the disbursal ofthe Rs 3000/ .
Office. The meeting, which received an overwhelming response, brought to the forethe exfJeriences and hurdles faced by students across this .
country in accessing afellowship that should be rightfully theirs. Representatives and researchscholarsfromAllahabad, OU and Jamia, .
along with students from JNU narrated the obstacles faced by students intheir unive_rsities in accessing the scholarship..
to restrict the access of studentsto thescholarship amount. Thus, the demand has bee11 rnode that studentsmust have one year of research .
In Allahabad University,the University administration has set up guidelines of its own a':.·..;·:rd. The purpose of these guidelines appears to bereport from theirsupervisor.In Delhi University, there has been no disbursal of the fellowship till now. Studentshaw r.>P.enfilling up several forms for many days,yet there .
experience,mustmeet qualifications of ·merit', and must have participatedin anational levEl ,e.rninar,as well as produce acertificate and 'merit'.
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exists in theUGC guidelines.In addition, students havebeen asked toprovide aregister, file d':IJ stationery at their own expense,and four sets of has been no sign of the fellowship amount. The Registrarstated that the fellowship wouldl··:.: 't3naccording to 'merif, although no such clause .
academic records so that the admmistration canmaintain records!I!!.
In Jamia, the UGC funds have been sent to different departments, but each deparr11_1~nt has made its ownrules.Forms werechanged.
money due to them. .
several times. and conditions are b·e1ng applied such as that students who seek to access tnis fellowship will have to take 24 classes monthly for .
B.A. students! While the university administration has been busy formulating various guidelines. the students have still not received any fellowshipThe Bureaucratic 'Requirement' of Merit vs. Academic Excellence .
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What came out clearly from the meetmg was the fact that there is widespread student &mess inthe matter of fellowships.As aparticipant .
po1nted out.the fact that astudent who had applied and successfully passed an exam and r.rd ~·ne's dissertation topic and synopsis passed was .
surely enough to indicate the fulfilment ofall criterion of merit. The criterion of merit and the formalities of a"progress report" that are being.
Research needs time and commitment. and cannot progress ifsubjected to numerous·mechanical criterion and bureaucratic rules to be fulfilled every now and then . .
sought to be enforced on students can serve to satisfy the bureaucratic egos qt administration, but certainly belie all logic..
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Fixing 'Guidelines' to Scuttle Fellowships ..... '\.
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JNUSU holds that the original purpose ofthe Rs 3000/5000 fellowships was to provided basic sustenance grant that would enablestudents .
to undertake and pursue their research without any Impediments with regard to finances In this ~ontext, the attempt to provide the fellowships with all kinds of strings attached goes against the1rbasic purpose and intention. In particular,tnt:: fittemptsbeing made to shift the teaching and non-.
universities should be awarning of theshape of things to come, and the manner in whichthe UGC Committee is seeking to frame and fix "guidelines" It thereforebecomes imperative that there be avibrant student move·r·~·~t mensure that these attempts being made to stall the fellowsh1ps are fought tooth and rail. .
teaching responsibility of the university on the shoulders of students is completely unaccepta~!··.All these arbitrary criterion framed by different .
The Many tricks of Administrative Offensive.
The recent offensive has also to be seen in the context of the fact that AMU had startpt~ J :vursing the Fellowship from~an 2007, HCU from .
studentsthat therebe apnontization of funds towards the disbursal of student fellowship. ~ra iJGC responded with this offensive toderail and .
July 2006,while JNU did 11 from April 2007, against which JNUSU had been agitating for r! cJ!-uff date of July 2005. Tocounter the demand of .
destab1l1ze the demand for an early cut-off date. Such administrative manipulationis not, :d .'I. One has not forgotten that on the day that JNU .
Administration announced the disbursal of the fellowship from April2007(contrary to the sw.1-:..
Simultaneously slapped rustication orders on several students. in acalculated moveto sat:utagestudent protest on the fellowship issue. .
·:1t~' .
demand for an early cut-off date), it also almost.
Other Anomalies Involving fellowships.
JNUSU also got support and endorsement from the students of other universities in it~.raising of the range of other anomalies involving.
between DST-DBT/UGC/CSIR science fellowships, the need togive fellowships tophysica!l_y.challenged students in tune with Rajiv Gandhi .
Fellowship and operationalising the scheme of financial assistance to graduate and po~t·graduate students of minority community, as promised in the Union Budget of 2007. .
fellowships,which include timely and smooth disbursal of Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship, raisi~g of CSIRfellowship and removal of disparities.
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Need for a United Student Assertion! .
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, l·....<..y:,JNUSU Md Mobeen AlamJt. Secy., JNUSU.
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PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63154
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Onwards To The 29 Nov Protest Demo, ~·.~ ~ . .
25.11.07 ~Central Universities At UGC:DefeatThe Move OfStalling Rs.J000/5000 Fellowship andInstances of Administrative Insensitivity: Across Campuse~ .
The Dangerous Ploy OfFixing "Guidelines".
5000 fellowships, aPublic Meeting was organized by JNUSUwith researchscholars of other Central Universitieson 23Nov at JNUSU Onwards to the JNUSU's 29 Nov demonstration involving students of Central Universit1eS.~gainstthe stalling of the disbursal ofthe Rs 3000/ .
Office. The meeting, which received an overwhelming response, brought to the forethe exfJeriences and hurdles faced by students across this .
country in accessing afellowship that should be rightfully theirs. Representatives and researchscholarsfromAllahabad, OU and Jamia, .
along with students from JNU narrated the obstacles faced by students intheir unive_rsities in accessing the scholarship..
to restrict the access of studentsto thescholarship amount. Thus, the demand has bee11 rnode that studentsmust have one year of research .
In Allahabad University,the University administration has set up guidelines of its own a':.·..;·:rd. The purpose of these guidelines appears to bereport from theirsupervisor.In Delhi University, there has been no disbursal of the fellowship till now. Studentshaw r.>P.enfilling up several forms for many days,yet there .
experience,mustmeet qualifications of ·merit', and must have participatedin anational levEl ,e.rninar,as well as produce acertificate and 'merit'.
.'r .L .
exists in theUGC guidelines.In addition, students havebeen asked toprovide aregister, file d':IJ stationery at their own expense,and four sets of has been no sign of the fellowship amount. The Registrarstated that the fellowship wouldl··:.: 't3naccording to 'merif, although no such clause .
academic records so that the admmistration canmaintain records!I!!.
In Jamia, the UGC funds have been sent to different departments, but each deparr11_1~nt has made its ownrules.Forms werechanged.
money due to them. .
several times. and conditions are b·e1ng applied such as that students who seek to access tnis fellowship will have to take 24 classes monthly for .
B.A. students! While the university administration has been busy formulating various guidelines. the students have still not received any fellowshipThe Bureaucratic 'Requirement' of Merit vs. Academic Excellence .
...·-' .
What came out clearly from the meetmg was the fact that there is widespread student &mess inthe matter of fellowships.As aparticipant .
po1nted out.the fact that astudent who had applied and successfully passed an exam and r.rd ~·ne's dissertation topic and synopsis passed was .
surely enough to indicate the fulfilment ofall criterion of merit. The criterion of merit and the formalities of a"progress report" that are being.
Research needs time and commitment. and cannot progress ifsubjected to numerous·mechanical criterion and bureaucratic rules to be fulfilled every now and then . .
sought to be enforced on students can serve to satisfy the bureaucratic egos qt administration, but certainly belie all logic..
"''\'".
Fixing 'Guidelines' to Scuttle Fellowships ..... '\.
~'"'. '1...·.
JNUSU holds that the original purpose ofthe Rs 3000/5000 fellowships was to provided basic sustenance grant that would enablestudents .
to undertake and pursue their research without any Impediments with regard to finances In this ~ontext, the attempt to provide the fellowships with all kinds of strings attached goes against the1rbasic purpose and intention. In particular,tnt:: fittemptsbeing made to shift the teaching and non-.
universities should be awarning of theshape of things to come, and the manner in whichthe UGC Committee is seeking to frame and fix "guidelines" It thereforebecomes imperative that there be avibrant student move·r·~·~t mensure that these attempts being made to stall the fellowsh1ps are fought tooth and rail. .
teaching responsibility of the university on the shoulders of students is completely unaccepta~!··.All these arbitrary criterion framed by different .
The Many tricks of Administrative Offensive.
The recent offensive has also to be seen in the context of the fact that AMU had startpt~ J :vursing the Fellowship from~an 2007, HCU from .
studentsthat therebe apnontization of funds towards the disbursal of student fellowship. ~ra iJGC responded with this offensive toderail and .
July 2006,while JNU did 11 from April 2007, against which JNUSU had been agitating for r! cJ!-uff date of July 2005. Tocounter the demand of .
destab1l1ze the demand for an early cut-off date. Such administrative manipulationis not, :d .'I. One has not forgotten that on the day that JNU .
Administration announced the disbursal of the fellowship from April2007(contrary to the sw.1-:..
Simultaneously slapped rustication orders on several students. in acalculated moveto sat:utagestudent protest on the fellowship issue. .
·:1t~' .
demand for an early cut-off date), it also almost.
Other Anomalies Involving fellowships.
JNUSU also got support and endorsement from the students of other universities in it~.raising of the range of other anomalies involving.
between DST-DBT/UGC/CSIR science fellowships, the need togive fellowships tophysica!l_y.challenged students in tune with Rajiv Gandhi .
Fellowship and operationalising the scheme of financial assistance to graduate and po~t·graduate students of minority community, as promised in the Union Budget of 2007. .
fellowships,which include timely and smooth disbursal of Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship, raisi~g of CSIRfellowship and removal of disparities.
.
Need for a United Student Assertion! .
. .
, l·....<..y:,JNUSU Md Mobeen AlamJt. Secy., JNUSU.
. .. .
.