PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-45926
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JNUSU Elections 2012: A Perspective andAgenda .
Re~ssett The Vision o A Sod~lly-Committe4, Pto-Stu4ent, Pro-People JNVSV .
mechanism of English training programme (remedial courses), .
The central and state governments, with their basic texts and readings needto be translated intovernacular .
higher education policies, are hell bent on increasing languages, bodies have to be set up in each centre for the privatization, cutting back on services and facilities, shifting the purpose. .
burden for funding onto students in the name of 'user charges' Updating the Quartile list to Ensure More Social and higher fees, increasing authoritarianism and shrinking .
Inclusion:Several backward districts are not identified as such .
democracy, and undermining of social justice. by JNU, and students coming from these districts are notable .
In our campus. we have seen many ofthese highereducation to avail ofdeprivation points. Many ofthese are newly formed .
policy offensives ofthe government in action. In our struggles in districts {forinstance Siddharth Nagar, Mau and Gautam Buddha JNU in the past few years, we've had to take our fight, not only to Nagar), and JNU will therefore have to undertake an exercise to .
the JNU Administration, but to the HRD Ministry, UGC, and the update the Quartile list. .
Supreme Court Onlythose who have a consistentnational .
Further Expanding the Scope of Recognition of vision and commitmentto resisting this policy offensive, have Madarsa Certificates:After 40 long years, JNU finally started been able to conductthe struggles on campus too. recognizing madarsa certificates in 2008.Afterthe first round in That's whyit is A/SA andits JNUSU leadership which has 2008, this year 9 more madarsas have been recognized. This spearheadedthe strugglesin JNU fora range of progressive process has to be intensified. Also the anomalies requiring .
POUCYLEVEL interventions : additional English certificates from eligible madarsa students .
Againstcommercialization and corporatization ofcampus, have to be corrected. Against the subverston of OBC quotas through faulty RJghts and facilitiesfor PHNH students:Mandatory 3% 'cut-offdefinition, reservation in Teaching and Non-teaching posts must be strictly Forrecognition ofmadarsa certificates in admissions, implemented. Proper texts and readings (without markings) should be made available to PH students, and the Helen Keller Forenhancing MCM, Unit should be greatly improved with better infrastructure as usercharges·, Forbetter health services,Against 'well as manpower to make the process ofscanning easierand Defending small vendors spaces against big corporate more efficient. There should be transparency in the functioning outlets ltke Nestle, Forworkers' rights in the campus, of Helen Keller unit. JNU must recognise and implement the .
Proposing an autonomous bodylike GSCASH in the campus new rule of hiring scribes for VH students, which allows even .
waybackin 1996 itselflong before the Visakhajudgement, senior students to be scribes. The readers allowance for BA/ .
Againstthe imposit1on ofLyngdoh recommendations, MA (Rs.1000) and M.Phii./PhD (Rs 1500) be increased toRs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 respectively.
Against censorship and bans.... .
The new JNUSU must reassert this vision and rnrtiate newer Financial assistance to PH/VH students also has to be improved. In particular, a fellowship on the lines ofthe RGNF struggles to strengthen students' rights, social inclusiveness .
for the PH students has been a long-standing demand ofthe .
and the secular,democratic, gender-sensitive character of JNU. student community. Moreover, ramps and all required .
Issues of Social Justice and Inclusion.
.. infrastructure should be constructed in all burldrngs for greater Reduction in weightage of viva marks: In JNU's mobility and convenience of PHNH students; PH friendly toilets admission system, the weightage for viva voce is currently 30%, should be constructed in all school buildings and hostels. A .
which is not only illegal but also leaves a huge space for holistic solution to the problem of dogs has to be evolved. The .
already clinched issue of the representation of PH student in discrimination. This issuewas also raised in the petition that the CDC hasto be mandatorily implemented. The JNU Railway .
was filed in the High Court, challenging the JNU .
Reservation Counter should process railway concessionsadministration's cut-offcriteria. This has to be reduced to 10-.
15% as perthe Supreme Court judgment of 1980 delivered by entitled to the PH students .
a five-member Constitution Bench. Moreover, 5% should be Increased Financial Assistance and BetterDisbursal prescribed as minimum marks that can be obtained by a Mechanism for Scholarships and Fellowships: .
student. According to the present norms. the Rs 3000/5000 UGC Reduction in EligibilityCriteria for OBC Students and scholarship forM.Phil/Ph.D students is valid for a total offive Ending Gross Discrimination in Hostel Allotment:The years. As a result, research students, for whom this basic sustenance scholarship starts atthe beginning of M.Phil., are .
eligibility criteria for OBC students have to be reduced atvarious left without even this minimum financial assistance atthe last levels-BA/MA, MPhil1 st year to M.Phil2nd year, and also from 2 years oftheir Ph.D. Therefore. the duration ofthis scholarship. .
M.Phil to Ph.D. The present hostel allotment criteria which is must be increased, or some suitable scholarship system .
highly discriminatory has to be changed so that students from should be devised to cover the total research duration, so that the general and OBC categories are allotted hostels .
students (especially from deprived backgrounds) can sustainsimultaneously. .
themselves during the crucial last stages of their research. .
Institutionalised Mechanism for Democratizing .
Moreover,the long-standing demand of enhancingthe amount.
Academics: In JNU,we have fought and won several battles of both MCM and the Rs 3000/5000 UGC scholarship be .
for social inclusion -for deprivation points, for recognision of .
madarsa certificates, for proper implementation of OBC immediately implemented. In the face of run-away inflation, the reservations, against fee hikes and commercialization. enhancement of these basic scholarships has become an .
However, itis our collective responsibility to ensure that students urgent necessity. .
from all backgrounds are a.ble to continue with their academics The number of the RGNF fellowships and the Maulana Azad .
.
in JNU, despite coming from various linguistic. social and fellowships should be increased. Also, tne disbursal .
economic backgrounds.Therefore, we need a completely fresh process for the Maulana Azad fellowship has to be D .
approach in this regard. Along with revitalising the existing .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2007 ID-45926
.
k I .
JNUSU Elections 2012: A Perspective andAgenda .
Re~ssett The Vision o A Sod~lly-Committe4, Pto-Stu4ent, Pro-People JNVSV .
mechanism of English training programme (remedial courses), .
The central and state governments, with their basic texts and readings needto be translated intovernacular .
higher education policies, are hell bent on increasing languages, bodies have to be set up in each centre for the privatization, cutting back on services and facilities, shifting the purpose. .
burden for funding onto students in the name of 'user charges' Updating the Quartile list to Ensure More Social and higher fees, increasing authoritarianism and shrinking .
Inclusion:Several backward districts are not identified as such .
democracy, and undermining of social justice. by JNU, and students coming from these districts are notable .
In our campus. we have seen many ofthese highereducation to avail ofdeprivation points. Many ofthese are newly formed .
policy offensives ofthe government in action. In our struggles in districts {forinstance Siddharth Nagar, Mau and Gautam Buddha JNU in the past few years, we've had to take our fight, not only to Nagar), and JNU will therefore have to undertake an exercise to .
the JNU Administration, but to the HRD Ministry, UGC, and the update the Quartile list. .
Supreme Court Onlythose who have a consistentnational .
Further Expanding the Scope of Recognition of vision and commitmentto resisting this policy offensive, have Madarsa Certificates:After 40 long years, JNU finally started been able to conductthe struggles on campus too. recognizing madarsa certificates in 2008.Afterthe first round in That's whyit is A/SA andits JNUSU leadership which has 2008, this year 9 more madarsas have been recognized. This spearheadedthe strugglesin JNU fora range of progressive process has to be intensified. Also the anomalies requiring .
POUCYLEVEL interventions : additional English certificates from eligible madarsa students .
Againstcommercialization and corporatization ofcampus, have to be corrected. Against the subverston of OBC quotas through faulty RJghts and facilitiesfor PHNH students:Mandatory 3% 'cut-offdefinition, reservation in Teaching and Non-teaching posts must be strictly Forrecognition ofmadarsa certificates in admissions, implemented. Proper texts and readings (without markings) should be made available to PH students, and the Helen Keller Forenhancing MCM, Unit should be greatly improved with better infrastructure as usercharges·, Forbetter health services,Against 'well as manpower to make the process ofscanning easierand Defending small vendors spaces against big corporate more efficient. There should be transparency in the functioning outlets ltke Nestle, Forworkers' rights in the campus, of Helen Keller unit. JNU must recognise and implement the .
Proposing an autonomous bodylike GSCASH in the campus new rule of hiring scribes for VH students, which allows even .
waybackin 1996 itselflong before the Visakhajudgement, senior students to be scribes. The readers allowance for BA/ .
Againstthe imposit1on ofLyngdoh recommendations, MA (Rs.1000) and M.Phii./PhD (Rs 1500) be increased toRs. 3000 and Rs. 5000 respectively.
Against censorship and bans.... .
The new JNUSU must reassert this vision and rnrtiate newer Financial assistance to PH/VH students also has to be improved. In particular, a fellowship on the lines ofthe RGNF struggles to strengthen students' rights, social inclusiveness .
for the PH students has been a long-standing demand ofthe .
and the secular,democratic, gender-sensitive character of JNU. student community. Moreover, ramps and all required .
Issues of Social Justice and Inclusion.
.. infrastructure should be constructed in all burldrngs for greater Reduction in weightage of viva marks: In JNU's mobility and convenience of PHNH students; PH friendly toilets admission system, the weightage for viva voce is currently 30%, should be constructed in all school buildings and hostels. A .
which is not only illegal but also leaves a huge space for holistic solution to the problem of dogs has to be evolved. The .
already clinched issue of the representation of PH student in discrimination. This issuewas also raised in the petition that the CDC hasto be mandatorily implemented. The JNU Railway .
was filed in the High Court, challenging the JNU .
Reservation Counter should process railway concessionsadministration's cut-offcriteria. This has to be reduced to 10-.
15% as perthe Supreme Court judgment of 1980 delivered by entitled to the PH students .
a five-member Constitution Bench. Moreover, 5% should be Increased Financial Assistance and BetterDisbursal prescribed as minimum marks that can be obtained by a Mechanism for Scholarships and Fellowships: .
student. According to the present norms. the Rs 3000/5000 UGC Reduction in EligibilityCriteria for OBC Students and scholarship forM.Phil/Ph.D students is valid for a total offive Ending Gross Discrimination in Hostel Allotment:The years. As a result, research students, for whom this basic sustenance scholarship starts atthe beginning of M.Phil., are .
eligibility criteria for OBC students have to be reduced atvarious left without even this minimum financial assistance atthe last levels-BA/MA, MPhil1 st year to M.Phil2nd year, and also from 2 years oftheir Ph.D. Therefore. the duration ofthis scholarship. .
M.Phil to Ph.D. The present hostel allotment criteria which is must be increased, or some suitable scholarship system .
highly discriminatory has to be changed so that students from should be devised to cover the total research duration, so that the general and OBC categories are allotted hostels .
students (especially from deprived backgrounds) can sustainsimultaneously. .
themselves during the crucial last stages of their research. .
Institutionalised Mechanism for Democratizing .
Moreover,the long-standing demand of enhancingthe amount.
Academics: In JNU,we have fought and won several battles of both MCM and the Rs 3000/5000 UGC scholarship be .
for social inclusion -for deprivation points, for recognision of .
madarsa certificates, for proper implementation of OBC immediately implemented. In the face of run-away inflation, the reservations, against fee hikes and commercialization. enhancement of these basic scholarships has become an .
However, itis our collective responsibility to ensure that students urgent necessity. .
from all backgrounds are a.ble to continue with their academics The number of the RGNF fellowships and the Maulana Azad .
.
in JNU, despite coming from various linguistic. social and fellowships should be increased. Also, tne disbursal .
economic backgrounds.Therefore, we need a completely fresh process for the Maulana Azad fellowship has to be D .
approach in this regard. Along with revitalising the existing .
.