PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-27388
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Aditya Mukherjee Committees Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed Back in the AC Meeting! Strengthen The Spirited Unity of Teachers and Students For.
19.3.10 .
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Defending and Implementing Reservations in JNU! .
Participants on the MASS RELAY HUNGER STRIKE of 17-18 March .
Aamir, Abdul Baseer, Abhay, Agnitra, Akashdeep Singh, Akhil, Akshay, Amenio, Amit, Amrin, Anand, Anil Gupta, Anil Kr. Varma, Anil Kumar, Anurag, Apurva, Aqsa, Ardra, Arun Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Meena, Bhupendra Singh, Bony Kumar, Brajesh, Chandan, Chandramani, Chandraprakash, Chittaranjan, Debalina, Deep Kr. Mittal, Devina, Dinesh Kumar, Feroz, Ganesh M., Gaurav, Gautam, Gunamani, Hemant, Jitendra Kr Chaudhary, Kaushal, Khatija, Kumar Saurav, Madhav Gopal, Mahendra, Mahfooz Alam, Mangalam, Maniben, Manilata, Manish, Mary Toppo, Md. Jilani, Mujtaba Jamal, Mustaq, Nazim, Neelesh Tripathi, Niharika, Niranjan,Om Prasad, P.K. Sethi, Piyush, Pramod Kumar, Praveen, Punit, Radhika, Rahul, Rajnish, Rakesh, Rameez, Ramesh, Ramratan Mahraddha, Rauf, Ravi, S. Satyanarayan, Saket, Sanchi, Sanjay Suman, Santosh, Santosh, Shafat, Shafi Ahmed, Shailesh, Shamim, Shamsurrab, Shankar, Sharmistha, Shashwat, Shewli, Shivlochan, Shriya, Shubhash, Shweta, Sonu, Sreemoyi, Srinayani, Suraj, Swami Kundan, Swati, Tulsi, Uday, Vikash, Vikram, Vimal Kr. Kashyap, Vinod Arya, Vishal, Vishesh .
The past week has seen massive support from the entire JNU community for the movement against the JNU administrations efforts to scuttle reservations and social justice in JNU. FDIR thanks the student community for the solidarity with the ongoing struggle for proper implementation of reservations in JNU, and for the large participation in the public meetings, hunger strikes, protest demonstrations and dharnas called in the past few days. We also congratu-late all the Hunger Strikers and their massive response in the Mass Relay Hunger strke on the last day. Students and teachers alike have expressed their anger against the blatant manner in which constitutional provisions for ensuring social inclusion in institutions of higher education are being violated with impunity in JNU. .
As a result of the sustained pressure built up over time, JNUs Academic Council decided yesterday to reject the proposals of the Aditya Mukherjee Committee regarding the cut-off criteria for OBC students seeking admission in JNU. After a long debate, the AC decided that instead of continuing to follow this illegal and illogical criteria which is denying admission to several eligible OBC students, JNU should consider following the model of the Central Univer-sity of Hyderabad which is correctly interpreting the MHRD guidelines and Supreme Court directives to fulfill the OBC quota. A committee consisting of the Deans of all schools will look into the matter as soon as possible and take a final decision so that the correct criterion is made operative from the coming admissions this year itself. .
Regarding the implementation of SC/ST reservations in faculty positions, the strong presence and arguments of several teachers in favour of reservations prevented the AC from endorsing the JNU administrations anti-reservation designs. The AC however did not come to a final decision, since it was adjourned. The next AC will take a final decision on this issue. .
Following the AC meeting, FDIR called off the indefinite hunger strike in the presence of several faculty members who congratulated the student community for their sustained struggle and their role in making the blatant subversion of social justice a major issue in the entire JNU community. .
While we have achieved a major victory in pushing back the Aditya Mukherjee Committees casteist and illegal formula, the battle is however far from over.The fact that the Aditya Mukherjee committee recommendations will NOT be applied in the coming academic session is a victory for the basic point that the student community has repeat-edly made over the past two years. However, in the days to come, we have to continue the struggle and the mobiliza-tion to ensure that the Deans committee constituted to take a final decision upholds the basic concern regarding the criminal denial of admission to OBC students due to a faulty, illegal and illogical cut-off criteria. .
The issue of the faulty cut-off criteria is not a new one. JNUSU and the student community had pointed this out to the administration way back in 2008. However, despite opposition from JNUSU, Prof. Aditya Mukherjee (who is known to have strong anti-reservation views) was made the Chairperson of the committee specifically set up to look into the cut-off criteria. This committee repeatedly ratified the JNU administrations faulty and legally untenable position. The entire JNU community has to be vigilant to ensure that the issue of social justice is not scuttled once more by people who misuse their responsible posts in the administration to scuttle constitutionally mandated provisions according to their personal whims and fancies. The decision at the Deans Committee must be taken with utmost concern for logic, for the law, and most importantly, keeping in mind the supreme concern for social justice. The individual ideological persuasions of the committee members cannot be allowed to scuttle social justice as has been happening so far. .
While we thank the student community for their support for our efforts over the past month to build a move-ment in favour of social justice in this campus, we would also like to express our shock and pain over the reaction and attitude of certain political organizations towards FDIR. We have repeatedly been accused by SFI, PSU and DSU (with some restraint) for being sectarian, and for indulging in one-upmanship. PSU and SFI have also alleged that we are .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2011 ID-27388
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Aditya Mukherjee Committees Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed Back in the AC Meeting! Strengthen The Spirited Unity of Teachers and Students For.
19.3.10 .
.
Defending and Implementing Reservations in JNU! .
Participants on the MASS RELAY HUNGER STRIKE of 17-18 March .
Aamir, Abdul Baseer, Abhay, Agnitra, Akashdeep Singh, Akhil, Akshay, Amenio, Amit, Amrin, Anand, Anil Gupta, Anil Kr. Varma, Anil Kumar, Anurag, Apurva, Aqsa, Ardra, Arun Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Meena, Bhupendra Singh, Bony Kumar, Brajesh, Chandan, Chandramani, Chandraprakash, Chittaranjan, Debalina, Deep Kr. Mittal, Devina, Dinesh Kumar, Feroz, Ganesh M., Gaurav, Gautam, Gunamani, Hemant, Jitendra Kr Chaudhary, Kaushal, Khatija, Kumar Saurav, Madhav Gopal, Mahendra, Mahfooz Alam, Mangalam, Maniben, Manilata, Manish, Mary Toppo, Md. Jilani, Mujtaba Jamal, Mustaq, Nazim, Neelesh Tripathi, Niharika, Niranjan,Om Prasad, P.K. Sethi, Piyush, Pramod Kumar, Praveen, Punit, Radhika, Rahul, Rajnish, Rakesh, Rameez, Ramesh, Ramratan Mahraddha, Rauf, Ravi, S. Satyanarayan, Saket, Sanchi, Sanjay Suman, Santosh, Santosh, Shafat, Shafi Ahmed, Shailesh, Shamim, Shamsurrab, Shankar, Sharmistha, Shashwat, Shewli, Shivlochan, Shriya, Shubhash, Shweta, Sonu, Sreemoyi, Srinayani, Suraj, Swami Kundan, Swati, Tulsi, Uday, Vikash, Vikram, Vimal Kr. Kashyap, Vinod Arya, Vishal, Vishesh .
The past week has seen massive support from the entire JNU community for the movement against the JNU administrations efforts to scuttle reservations and social justice in JNU. FDIR thanks the student community for the solidarity with the ongoing struggle for proper implementation of reservations in JNU, and for the large participation in the public meetings, hunger strikes, protest demonstrations and dharnas called in the past few days. We also congratu-late all the Hunger Strikers and their massive response in the Mass Relay Hunger strke on the last day. Students and teachers alike have expressed their anger against the blatant manner in which constitutional provisions for ensuring social inclusion in institutions of higher education are being violated with impunity in JNU. .
As a result of the sustained pressure built up over time, JNUs Academic Council decided yesterday to reject the proposals of the Aditya Mukherjee Committee regarding the cut-off criteria for OBC students seeking admission in JNU. After a long debate, the AC decided that instead of continuing to follow this illegal and illogical criteria which is denying admission to several eligible OBC students, JNU should consider following the model of the Central Univer-sity of Hyderabad which is correctly interpreting the MHRD guidelines and Supreme Court directives to fulfill the OBC quota. A committee consisting of the Deans of all schools will look into the matter as soon as possible and take a final decision so that the correct criterion is made operative from the coming admissions this year itself. .
Regarding the implementation of SC/ST reservations in faculty positions, the strong presence and arguments of several teachers in favour of reservations prevented the AC from endorsing the JNU administrations anti-reservation designs. The AC however did not come to a final decision, since it was adjourned. The next AC will take a final decision on this issue. .
Following the AC meeting, FDIR called off the indefinite hunger strike in the presence of several faculty members who congratulated the student community for their sustained struggle and their role in making the blatant subversion of social justice a major issue in the entire JNU community. .
While we have achieved a major victory in pushing back the Aditya Mukherjee Committees casteist and illegal formula, the battle is however far from over.The fact that the Aditya Mukherjee committee recommendations will NOT be applied in the coming academic session is a victory for the basic point that the student community has repeat-edly made over the past two years. However, in the days to come, we have to continue the struggle and the mobiliza-tion to ensure that the Deans committee constituted to take a final decision upholds the basic concern regarding the criminal denial of admission to OBC students due to a faulty, illegal and illogical cut-off criteria. .
The issue of the faulty cut-off criteria is not a new one. JNUSU and the student community had pointed this out to the administration way back in 2008. However, despite opposition from JNUSU, Prof. Aditya Mukherjee (who is known to have strong anti-reservation views) was made the Chairperson of the committee specifically set up to look into the cut-off criteria. This committee repeatedly ratified the JNU administrations faulty and legally untenable position. The entire JNU community has to be vigilant to ensure that the issue of social justice is not scuttled once more by people who misuse their responsible posts in the administration to scuttle constitutionally mandated provisions according to their personal whims and fancies. The decision at the Deans Committee must be taken with utmost concern for logic, for the law, and most importantly, keeping in mind the supreme concern for social justice. The individual ideological persuasions of the committee members cannot be allowed to scuttle social justice as has been happening so far. .
While we thank the student community for their support for our efforts over the past month to build a move-ment in favour of social justice in this campus, we would also like to express our shock and pain over the reaction and attitude of certain political organizations towards FDIR. We have repeatedly been accused by SFI, PSU and DSU (with some restraint) for being sectarian, and for indulging in one-upmanship. PSU and SFI have also alleged that we are .
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