PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2009 ID-5943
.
.Join The Battle To Ensure That .JNU Remains Accessible To All! Let Not The MHRD Or .JNU Administartion Succeed In .
6.10.09 Turning This Campus Into An Enclave Of The Elite And Rich! .
The Drought is only an excuse, austerity is onlya pretext. The real agenda of the UPAGovernmentwas hitherto hidden .
in the fine print, but now the mask has fallen and it is there for all of us to see. Quite simply, this government seek to .
.
renounce its responsibility towards education and deliver itentirely into private hands. The MHRD circular of12Septembergives a call to establish a new model ofthe university: one which will extort money in the form offee hikes and usercharges so as to ensure that students 'pay' for their education, for the chemicals they use .
in labs and the books they read in libraries. In the name of austerity, workers suffer job cuts, and students are made to pay ever greater fees. But this .
Government practises no 'austerity' while doling outthousands ofcrores to the corporate sector. This year, the .
Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, inserted Section 35AD in the FinanceAct, 2009 to allow 100 per cent tax exemp-tion on the entire capital expenditure incurred on setting up and operating a natural gas orcrude oil pipeline. Above all, the .
Minister's benevolence has helped one company-Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Limited (RGTIL) to the tune .
ofnearly 20,000 crore! .
And still the corporate sector demands more relaxations, more land, more subsidies, more freebies and .
.
more tax sops. Yesterday's paper reported that Lakshmi Mittal has declared that ifhe is not given easy access to land in .
Orissa and Jharkhand, hewill pull out his steel projectworth 20 billion. The corporate media is concerned with how India will .
.
suffer from Mr Mittal's loss and does not spare a though for the thousands who will no doubt be displaced by this project We .
~ .
's demands.Any opposition will be dismissed or gunned down. .
do not doubt that the governmentwill surrenderto Mittal.
.
What sort of strange irony is this? Here is a government that claims to lack funds for universities or money to f .
universalize the PDS, yet it has more than enough to give away as a corporate bonanza-even conservative .
.
I .
estimates approximate 20 crore per hour! .
Kapil Sibal has been pitching his new agenda of'reform' as a sugar-coated pill, a one-stop solution for all ills. And there s .
is no shortage ofthose who are quick tojoin the chorus applauding these reforms. Rahul Gandhi came to JNU recently and s .
proclaimed that JNU'S fee structure was too little and that students should be prepared to pay fees equalling 20% of the .
.
l-university's budget. Since then NSUI has maintained a stoic silence both on their yuvaraj's speech as well as the recent .
MHRD circular. Perhaps Rahul Gandhi and his flunkeys in the NSUI are unaware that JNU has never closed its .
.
doors to students from the most deprived sections ofthe country. Rather the democratic structures of the campus, .
from the classroom to the hostel have been geared towards ensuring that no student is turned away because they cannot .d .
afford to pay for education. Perhaps they are unaware that there are a large numberofstudents on this campus who find it s, .
difficulteven to sustain themselves on the Rs 1500 they getas MCM, let alone meeting additional costs ofliving. .
.
'Y .
in tuition and hostel fees, user charges for electricity, water etc, will mean that JNU will become unaffordable and inacces-These newproposals ofthe MHRDwill mean is that JNU will becomejustanother institute feeding the super-elite. Hikes .
:te .
sible for the mass ofstudents presently studying here. It will also send out a deterrent signal to the many students who wish ey .
.
to come to JNU to study from many different parts of the country. We challenge NSUI, and their right-wing allies ABVP .
and YFE to break their silence on the proposals for privatization and inform the student community where they .
stand. le-.
The orchestrated campaign to enforce austerity is not the desperation ofany genuine fund-crunch, but a conscious ld-.
.
political gameplan to appease the corporate super-rich and make poor and common students shoulder the burden of .
recess1on. .
.
Friends, JNU as a university has always raised the voice ofresistance against the powers-that-be. The students ofJNU vas .
have unitedly opposed both earlier proposals of privatization as well as attempts to saffronize our curriculum. The present .
juncture also calls for an unremitting struggle. We must ensure that the university community, including its head, lice .
.
take a decision to fight this assault unitedly. JNU must stand up as one against this assault of the government. .
Highereducation and research are not just means ofeking a livelihood orgetting a job-they equip people with the capacity Ned .
.
for critical analysis. We must retain and uphold this facility ofJNU for critical thought. rather than allow our university to be .
tren .
taken over by the super-rich and the corporales. .
's ongoing agitation-Participate in large .
AISA calls upon each and every student to wholeheartedly join JNUSU.
.
numbers in tonight's FEE ROKO JULOOSfrom Ganga Dhabha at9.30 p.m.; observe UNIVERSITY STRIKE on 8!.!1 October .
and join the massive MARCH TO MHRD to reverse these disastrous proposals. .
.
AGAINST MHRD'S PROOSAL OF FUND CUT, SUBSIDY CUT AND FEE HIKE .
night 6 Oct from Ganga Dhaba 9.30m .
Sucheta, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU.
Shephalika Shekhar, President, AISA, JNU .
.
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I . ~..tJ .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2009 ID-5943
.
.Join The Battle To Ensure That .JNU Remains Accessible To All! Let Not The MHRD Or .JNU Administartion Succeed In .
6.10.09 Turning This Campus Into An Enclave Of The Elite And Rich! .
The Drought is only an excuse, austerity is onlya pretext. The real agenda of the UPAGovernmentwas hitherto hidden .
in the fine print, but now the mask has fallen and it is there for all of us to see. Quite simply, this government seek to .
.
renounce its responsibility towards education and deliver itentirely into private hands. The MHRD circular of12Septembergives a call to establish a new model ofthe university: one which will extort money in the form offee hikes and usercharges so as to ensure that students 'pay' for their education, for the chemicals they use .
in labs and the books they read in libraries. In the name of austerity, workers suffer job cuts, and students are made to pay ever greater fees. But this .
Government practises no 'austerity' while doling outthousands ofcrores to the corporate sector. This year, the .
Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, inserted Section 35AD in the FinanceAct, 2009 to allow 100 per cent tax exemp-tion on the entire capital expenditure incurred on setting up and operating a natural gas orcrude oil pipeline. Above all, the .
Minister's benevolence has helped one company-Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Limited (RGTIL) to the tune .
ofnearly 20,000 crore! .
And still the corporate sector demands more relaxations, more land, more subsidies, more freebies and .
.
more tax sops. Yesterday's paper reported that Lakshmi Mittal has declared that ifhe is not given easy access to land in .
Orissa and Jharkhand, hewill pull out his steel projectworth 20 billion. The corporate media is concerned with how India will .
.
suffer from Mr Mittal's loss and does not spare a though for the thousands who will no doubt be displaced by this project We .
~ .
's demands.Any opposition will be dismissed or gunned down. .
do not doubt that the governmentwill surrenderto Mittal.
.
What sort of strange irony is this? Here is a government that claims to lack funds for universities or money to f .
universalize the PDS, yet it has more than enough to give away as a corporate bonanza-even conservative .
.
I .
estimates approximate 20 crore per hour! .
Kapil Sibal has been pitching his new agenda of'reform' as a sugar-coated pill, a one-stop solution for all ills. And there s .
is no shortage ofthose who are quick tojoin the chorus applauding these reforms. Rahul Gandhi came to JNU recently and s .
proclaimed that JNU'S fee structure was too little and that students should be prepared to pay fees equalling 20% of the .
.
l-university's budget. Since then NSUI has maintained a stoic silence both on their yuvaraj's speech as well as the recent .
MHRD circular. Perhaps Rahul Gandhi and his flunkeys in the NSUI are unaware that JNU has never closed its .
.
doors to students from the most deprived sections ofthe country. Rather the democratic structures of the campus, .
from the classroom to the hostel have been geared towards ensuring that no student is turned away because they cannot .d .
afford to pay for education. Perhaps they are unaware that there are a large numberofstudents on this campus who find it s, .
difficulteven to sustain themselves on the Rs 1500 they getas MCM, let alone meeting additional costs ofliving. .
.
'Y .
in tuition and hostel fees, user charges for electricity, water etc, will mean that JNU will become unaffordable and inacces-These newproposals ofthe MHRDwill mean is that JNU will becomejustanother institute feeding the super-elite. Hikes .
:te .
sible for the mass ofstudents presently studying here. It will also send out a deterrent signal to the many students who wish ey .
.
to come to JNU to study from many different parts of the country. We challenge NSUI, and their right-wing allies ABVP .
and YFE to break their silence on the proposals for privatization and inform the student community where they .
stand. le-.
The orchestrated campaign to enforce austerity is not the desperation ofany genuine fund-crunch, but a conscious ld-.
.
political gameplan to appease the corporate super-rich and make poor and common students shoulder the burden of .
recess1on. .
.
Friends, JNU as a university has always raised the voice ofresistance against the powers-that-be. The students ofJNU vas .
have unitedly opposed both earlier proposals of privatization as well as attempts to saffronize our curriculum. The present .
juncture also calls for an unremitting struggle. We must ensure that the university community, including its head, lice .
.
take a decision to fight this assault unitedly. JNU must stand up as one against this assault of the government. .
Highereducation and research are not just means ofeking a livelihood orgetting a job-they equip people with the capacity Ned .
.
for critical analysis. We must retain and uphold this facility ofJNU for critical thought. rather than allow our university to be .
tren .
taken over by the super-rich and the corporales. .
's ongoing agitation-Participate in large .
AISA calls upon each and every student to wholeheartedly join JNUSU.
.
numbers in tonight's FEE ROKO JULOOSfrom Ganga Dhabha at9.30 p.m.; observe UNIVERSITY STRIKE on 8!.!1 October .
and join the massive MARCH TO MHRD to reverse these disastrous proposals. .
.
AGAINST MHRD'S PROOSAL OF FUND CUT, SUBSIDY CUT AND FEE HIKE .
night 6 Oct from Ganga Dhaba 9.30m .
Sucheta, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU.
Shephalika Shekhar, President, AISA, JNU .
.
~~:~~"Y'l.
--.
I . ~..tJ .
.
;z:;.~~--..· .
"' -""""" -.
.