PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-33115
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14.3.12 .
Upcoming AC Meeting: March Ahead for Students .
Rights and Facilities Broader Inclusion and Democratisation.... .
Join Protest March Culminating in an Indefinite Hunger Strike at Ad Block Tonight 14 March Starting from Ganga Dhaba 9.30pm .
Today, as we join a Protest March culminating in an Indefinite Hunger Strike, JNUSU holds that the time has come for us to reassert what JNU stands for. Two weeks after the successful conduct of JNUSU elections, the students of JNU must stand with the vision that campus democracy CANNOT exist without social inclusion. True democracy on campus cannot exist unless we ensure the democratic functioning of each and every decision-making body in the university and unless we guarantee that the gates of the university will not be closed in the face of those who wish to enter. .
In nearby AIIMS, on 3 March, 2012, Anil Kumar Meena, an ST student, the son of a poor farmer, committed suicide in his hostel after he could bear the humiliation meted out to him by this elite institution no longer. Students like Anil come to universities dreaming of an education that will lead them to a better tomorrow. Instead, they are subject to abuse and torture, to discriminatory marking practices, to social humiliation and boycott, that forces them eventually to turn away from education and from life. Their deaths are among the great tragedies of modern India, that often go unreported and are easily forgotten. .
In JNU, the strength of the student movement and the legacy of our progressive culture has ensured that the face of discrimination is not as terrifying as in AIIMS and the IITs. But in the last few years, even on our campus, we have seen the purveyors of merit raise their head. In each case, we have defeated them, be it the casteist YFE or those in the power structure who shamefully scuttled the proper implementation of OBC reservations for several years. But such forces also keep returning in new ways. .
Today, even as the character of JNU has become more inclusive through several policy-level interventions, students face a discrimination at an everyday institutional and structural level: .
The Unfair Weightage of Viva Marks: The high weightage of viva marks in JNUs entrance exam has ensured that interviews often become a mechanism to exclude at will by offsetting the result of the written exam and unfairly titling the final selection process. Therefore, the weightage has to be reduced. .
Breaking Language Barriers and Notions of Merit: Apart from starting a concrete initiative of translating basic texts into vernacular languages, a holistic academic programme has to be devised at the level of each centre and school with the help of students as well as faculty members to identify and address the concrete problems being faced by students. .
Enhanced Financial Assistance and Proper Infrastructural Facilities for Differently-abled Students: JNU as a university is duty bound to ensure and uphold the rights of VH/PH students. The JNU Administration must ensure that the readers/escorts allowance for differently-abled students be increased, and proper infrastructure be put in place for them. .
Enhancement of MCM and Extending the Duration of non-NET UGC Scholarship for the crucial last two years of research: In a situation of runaway inflation and rising cost-of-living, the JNU administration must ensure the enhancement of basic scholarships like MCM. Also, the time duration of the non-NET UGC scholarships has to be increased to cover the crucial last two years of research. .
Expanding Recognition of Madarsa Certificates: In 2008, putting an end to 40 long years of discrimination, JNU finally started recognizing madarsa certificates for admission. This process of recognition must now be intensified. Also, anomalies requiring additional English certificates from eligible madarsa students have to be corrected. .
Updating the Quartile list to Ensure More Social Inclusion: JNU will have to undertake an exercise to update the Quartile list to give its inclusive admission policy more strength and relevance. .
Removal of Grade criteria in AC/BoS Elections: The discriminatory grade eligibility criteria to elections to AC/BoS goes against the democratic ethos of JNU and must be removed. .
Relaxation in Eligibility Criteria for OBC students: In keeping with the well-established norms of reservations, the eligibility criteria for OBC students at various levels has to be reduced. .
No Dismantling of Integrated B.A./M.A. course in SLL&CS and Remove Elitism in B.A. Entrance Question Papers: .
In this years prospectus, the administration has announced that the integrated nature of the BA/MA programmes in SL will be scrapped. Thishasto beopposed, and the inherent elitism in the BA entrance questionpapers hastobe removed. .
Addressing Educational Deprivation and Under-representation of Minorities: The Charter of demands passed by School GBMs includes the demand that Proactive steps towards alleviating educational deprivation of minorities delineated by several government instituted expert committees should be initiated by JNU. .
The JNUSU holds that the deprivation points system is one of the tools available to JNU, to achieve this goal of alleviating educational deprivation of minorities. There are other possible measures too proposed by various expert committees, that can also be considered. In order to arrive at the best possible, water-tight model of affirmative action for .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-33115
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14.3.12 .
Upcoming AC Meeting: March Ahead for Students .
Rights and Facilities Broader Inclusion and Democratisation.... .
Join Protest March Culminating in an Indefinite Hunger Strike at Ad Block Tonight 14 March Starting from Ganga Dhaba 9.30pm .
Today, as we join a Protest March culminating in an Indefinite Hunger Strike, JNUSU holds that the time has come for us to reassert what JNU stands for. Two weeks after the successful conduct of JNUSU elections, the students of JNU must stand with the vision that campus democracy CANNOT exist without social inclusion. True democracy on campus cannot exist unless we ensure the democratic functioning of each and every decision-making body in the university and unless we guarantee that the gates of the university will not be closed in the face of those who wish to enter. .
In nearby AIIMS, on 3 March, 2012, Anil Kumar Meena, an ST student, the son of a poor farmer, committed suicide in his hostel after he could bear the humiliation meted out to him by this elite institution no longer. Students like Anil come to universities dreaming of an education that will lead them to a better tomorrow. Instead, they are subject to abuse and torture, to discriminatory marking practices, to social humiliation and boycott, that forces them eventually to turn away from education and from life. Their deaths are among the great tragedies of modern India, that often go unreported and are easily forgotten. .
In JNU, the strength of the student movement and the legacy of our progressive culture has ensured that the face of discrimination is not as terrifying as in AIIMS and the IITs. But in the last few years, even on our campus, we have seen the purveyors of merit raise their head. In each case, we have defeated them, be it the casteist YFE or those in the power structure who shamefully scuttled the proper implementation of OBC reservations for several years. But such forces also keep returning in new ways. .
Today, even as the character of JNU has become more inclusive through several policy-level interventions, students face a discrimination at an everyday institutional and structural level: .
The Unfair Weightage of Viva Marks: The high weightage of viva marks in JNUs entrance exam has ensured that interviews often become a mechanism to exclude at will by offsetting the result of the written exam and unfairly titling the final selection process. Therefore, the weightage has to be reduced. .
Breaking Language Barriers and Notions of Merit: Apart from starting a concrete initiative of translating basic texts into vernacular languages, a holistic academic programme has to be devised at the level of each centre and school with the help of students as well as faculty members to identify and address the concrete problems being faced by students. .
Enhanced Financial Assistance and Proper Infrastructural Facilities for Differently-abled Students: JNU as a university is duty bound to ensure and uphold the rights of VH/PH students. The JNU Administration must ensure that the readers/escorts allowance for differently-abled students be increased, and proper infrastructure be put in place for them. .
Enhancement of MCM and Extending the Duration of non-NET UGC Scholarship for the crucial last two years of research: In a situation of runaway inflation and rising cost-of-living, the JNU administration must ensure the enhancement of basic scholarships like MCM. Also, the time duration of the non-NET UGC scholarships has to be increased to cover the crucial last two years of research. .
Expanding Recognition of Madarsa Certificates: In 2008, putting an end to 40 long years of discrimination, JNU finally started recognizing madarsa certificates for admission. This process of recognition must now be intensified. Also, anomalies requiring additional English certificates from eligible madarsa students have to be corrected. .
Updating the Quartile list to Ensure More Social Inclusion: JNU will have to undertake an exercise to update the Quartile list to give its inclusive admission policy more strength and relevance. .
Removal of Grade criteria in AC/BoS Elections: The discriminatory grade eligibility criteria to elections to AC/BoS goes against the democratic ethos of JNU and must be removed. .
Relaxation in Eligibility Criteria for OBC students: In keeping with the well-established norms of reservations, the eligibility criteria for OBC students at various levels has to be reduced. .
No Dismantling of Integrated B.A./M.A. course in SLL&CS and Remove Elitism in B.A. Entrance Question Papers: .
In this years prospectus, the administration has announced that the integrated nature of the BA/MA programmes in SL will be scrapped. Thishasto beopposed, and the inherent elitism in the BA entrance questionpapers hastobe removed. .
Addressing Educational Deprivation and Under-representation of Minorities: The Charter of demands passed by School GBMs includes the demand that Proactive steps towards alleviating educational deprivation of minorities delineated by several government instituted expert committees should be initiated by JNU. .
The JNUSU holds that the deprivation points system is one of the tools available to JNU, to achieve this goal of alleviating educational deprivation of minorities. There are other possible measures too proposed by various expert committees, that can also be considered. In order to arrive at the best possible, water-tight model of affirmative action for .
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