PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2002 ID-42061

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04.05.03 .

LAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION .

TheA'WJemlc Council Meeting held on ~May 2003 took certain important decisions. It decided to restore the nu'!'berof .

The ca ofR8Jiv G. Arlcat. a atudant of M.Phll in CLE who had been denied registration for an inadvertent error, .

25aaata In M.Phll and M.A reapectlvely..

a wn oplaced for review and a declalon to grant him rwglatratlon In the next aemterto complete his couraework and .

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111kIn the M.A. and M.PhR programmes ofCIL Setting aside the proposal of cutting the seats to 15 and 20, the A.C. approved 20 .

The demand to open test centres in Nagpur and Vishakhapatnam in order to improve access to students from backward .

M.PhR c118urtatlon haa been taken. .

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regiona was also met in the A.C. From this year onwards, entrance examination will be held for the part-time programmes (COP) .

a11o In order to ensure greater fairness in the admission process. The existing deprivation point system will be applied for these .

undue pressure on the students. The revised ordinance will be applicable for those joining in the academic year 2002...03 onwards. .

programmes also. The A.C. further resolved to increase the duration of the M.Tech programme to four semesters to ease the .

JNUSU and the Equal Opportunity Office has been formed in order to form a comprehensive proposal in this regard which can be implemented from.

Regarding the issues included in the JNUSU's charter of demands, the present status after discussions with the .

the nextsemester. Students belonging to socially and economically weaker sections should be provided teaching assistantships and the opportunity .

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1. Financial and academic assistance to students from deprived sections: A three member committee with representation from the .

Administration is as follows: .

to take tutorials, the remuneration for which should be provided from the funds allocated by the UGC for remedial classes. The funds from the .

again that profit-seeking private contractors cannot provide such facilities and regular messes are the only solution. While, the Administration has .

2. Mesa facilities in contractor~n messes: Due to the UGC's ban on recruitment of non-teaching staff, students have been denied ' affordable and quality mess facilities which are essential In a residential university like ours. The recent events in Mahi-Mandavi demonstrate once excellence grants should also be utffised for this purpose. .

finaOy written to the UGC now asking for more staff to run messes in these and the forthcoming hostels, further efforts are required to ensure that .

confined to the newer hostels since the existing hostels will also be affected as retiring staff is not replaced. The Administration has proposed that if this approval 1s obtained. The JNUSU has also sought an appointment with the UGC Chairperson In this regard. The problem will not remain .

approval for recruitment is not obtained from the UGC then the existing staff should be distributed among all the hostels and the additional staff .

amounts to a privatlsatlon of mess facilities and the JNUSU shall uncompromisingly resist any such attempt. The JNUSU also warns the required should be employed by levying establishment charge on students. This proposal is completely unacceptable to the student community as it .

Administration to refrain from victlmising any resident of Mahi-Mandavi for protesting against the Administration. .

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sanctloned a one time grant of Rs.1 crore for this purpose. The engineering department has made a comprehensive plan for the renovation of the .

mess areas and the toilets of all the hostels where this has not already taken place. Work is expected to begin by 1513. Hostel renovation: After representation from the JNUSU to the members of the JNU Court and the UGC's X Plan team, the UGC has .

nominees after a delay of two years. The shortage of faculty was being used as a pretext for proposing seat-cuts in centres like CIL, CSDILE, arrangements would be made during the renovation ofthe mess areas. .

5. Transport: Our demand for the formation of a transport committee on the lines of the Health and Campus Development Committees has been 4. Faculty appointment: The process of filling of the 150 vacant faculty posts in the university has started following the appointment of visitor's .

CIPOD, SC&SS. CPS and the appointment offaculty members has set this problem at rest. .

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pertaining to the timing, arbitrary rerouting of the buses etc. would be within the purview of this committee. Students are requested to give their mel This committee would consist of representatives of students, teachers, karmacharies, DTC authorities and private bus operators. All problems .

........nlaints in writing with full particulars to the Security Office (extn. 4029) or the JNUSU office. The university bus which had gone for CNG .

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6. Thesis and dissertation grant The grant for thesis and dissertation has been increased by 50% for the academic year 2002-2003 .

conversion has become operational from 1"April, 2003. .

However, on the crucial issues of violence and sexual harassment, the Administration has shown complete disregard for onwards. .

aH norms ofjustice: .

than six months, shows a clear blas and the implementation of its recommendation of fining six of the perpetrators and six of the victims Rs. 200 1. Punishment of perpetrators of violence of 1Oltl August, 2002: The report of the Proctorial Enquiry, submitted after a delay of more .

demonstrators, it refuses to attribute responsibility for the violence on the grounds that there were no independent witnesses. However, scores of each would amount to a gross denial of justice. While the report itself recognizes that the organisers of the programs chased and followed the .

students of Periyar, Kaveri and Godavari were witness to the one-sided violence. The report claims that there Is no medical evidence for violence, .

as ifviolence matters only when it leads to serious physical injury. Further, the report labels the students' peaceful and democratic exercise oftheir .

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the A.C. We would like to reiterate that the student community has always stood for the democratic culture of our university but the opportunistic right to protest as an act of p.rovocation worthy of punishment. The violence and verbal abuse directed against girl students which was an .

by a fresh team, but the Administration has shown complete disregard for the democratic ethos ofthe university by blatantly defending the report In .

stance ofthe Administration carries with it the dangerthat violence might become the norm In our university. member guilty of sexual harassment, giving various excuses since the beginning not to punish him. It has questioned the rules and procedures ofunprecedented part of the 10111 August incident finds no mention in the report. The JNUSU has demanded a review of this completely biased report .

, 2. Punishment in the case of sexual harassment The Administration has shown exemplary commitment in shielding Mr, Ttwari, a faculty .

GSCASH and has been trying to tamper with its constitution. In the last EC meeting a decision was taken to review this case. The GSCASH after .

completing this review process has reiterated its fmdings but the Administration is again looking for a loophole in order to avoid punishing htm. We .

warn the Administration that any attempt to shield the culprit in the forthcoming EC meeting or to tamper with the constitution of GSCASH will be .

We would appeal to the student community to remain united for the struggles ahead. .

unitedly resisted by the JNU community. .

The registration for continuing students for t.he next semester (monsoon 2003) would take place from 151h July to 2111 JuJy 2003. .

The rumours regarding removal ofclause 9B from the ordinances ofthe Ph.D programme is false. l lo-.vcvcr, any attempts ro do so would be .

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resisted. Shamshad A. Khan Gen. Secy, JNUSU.

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President, JNUSU .

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