PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2010 ID-50923
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Ouest For Socia I Justice: In the Wake of the HC Verdict JNU Community's Struggle for Correct .
Implementation of OBC Reservation .
and the HC Verdict .
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Prof. P.K.YadaV, SLS, 1\ feml>cr .JNU EC Dr. Vivek Kumar, csss, .JNU Prof. Gopal Guru, CPS,JNU Dr. Rohan D'Souza, CSSP, JNU .
Prof. Chamanlal, c Tr.., JNU Prof. Nivedia Menon, sis, JNU Prof. Hambux, c TL,JNu Dr. G. Aiav, CPS, JNU .
Prot. Sona Jharia Minz, sc& s, J' u Dr. Rajan Kumar, SIS, I\Iember JNU EC Dr. Y.S. Alone, .,AA. JNlJ DiliP Mandai, Jiwc .
Dr. D.K.lobiyal, C&SS, JNU .
---+----------------9.9.10Tonight Godavari Dhaba 9.30pm .
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"Procedure followed by ....JNU and the stand of the ... Union of India (UOI) regardmg reservation for OBCs is thus declared to be bad ... The policy adopted by the ...UOI & JNU amounts to the Executive taking away what the legislature has gi11en to the OBCs. The same cannot be pemutted to happen. The Act cannot be permitted to be used as a mode of making more seats available to the General (Unreserved) category than before; that was not the intent of the Act... " .
-Delhi High Court judge Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, in his recent verdict on OBC reservations .
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Two days back. the Delhi High Court reaffirmed what the progressive sections of the entire JNU ~ommunity and beyond have been reiterating for the past two years: that JNU has been wilfully denying admission to several OBC students tt10ugh ils patently lllegaf, illcgical, casteist interpretation of the cut-off criterion for OBC students. thus scuttling the proper imple-mentation of the OBC Reservation Act. The verdict could not more explicit -it clearly accuses the JNU administra-tion as well as the MHRD for 'defeating the very purpose' of the Act. .
Today. JNU stands shamefully ind1cted by the Delhi Hrgh Court for scuttling soc1al JUStice. Nothing could be more appall1ng for an Institution that prides rtself for 1ts commitment to socral JUStice. The question now arises: who should take responsibilfty for making OBC reservations in JNU 'illusionary' (as the judge correctly put it)? .
The answer is crystal clear. Dunng the past two years. the student community has several times brought this issue to the notice of no less than the Vrce Chancellor of JNU Every single offrcial rn charge of the admrssions process in the JNU adminrstration rs well aware of the objections repeatedly raised by JNUSU and the student community. Several faculty members had written to the VC way back in 2009 when the admrssions for the academ1c year 2009-10 were still going on, appealing to him to take note and correct the gross anomalies and illegalitres inherent 1n JNU s admission process. Several tnt~llectuals from outsrde JNU -rncludrng P.S. ~.rishnan former advisor to the MHRD on OBC reservations, as well as c1vil nghts activist and lawyer late K. Balagopal -al!;o pointed out (as the HC verdict has done) that JNU's position was 'bad'. .
After proJonged deliberation. JNU highest decision-making body, the Academic Council (AC) on 18 March 20 10. de-cteled to reject the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's illegal cut-off criteria. The dean's committee too. on 171/J June 2010. decided to implement the correct cut-off criteria for OBC students in keeping with the AC's overwhelming verdict. .
Despite all these efforts, the JNU administration remained adamant. And on 12 July 2010, just two days before the results were to be declared, JNU adm1nistratron shockingly overturned the Dean's committee's correct decision and reinstated the faulty Ad1tya Mukherjee committee's recommendations It is all the more appalling that the JNU administra-tion v1illingly chose to heed the 'legal op1n1on' of a lawyer representing t11e well-known antr-reservationist YFEl As the HC judgement now shows, this 'legal opinion' was clearly spurious and untenable. As a result, this year. only 15.9 of the legally mandated 27% OBC reservations were Implemented 1n JNU. For example. for the MA programme in JNU, only ~6% OBC reservation was implemented. Overall, more than 300 OBC seats have shockingly remained unfulfilled and subsequently transferred to the general category this year. .
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Clearly, the JNU administration has been no mere spectator: it has calculatedly acted to subvert the decision-making process in the university, bypassing even the Academic Council. The ideologrcal, casteist pr_ejudices of tile administration were so strong that it was w1111ng to disregard every sane appeal and advice 1n HS single-minded agenda to scuttle implementation or OBC reservations. ll is hrgh lime now that those responsrble for these acts of commission with the criminal scuttling of social justice be held accountable. Can we afford to have at the helm of a 'premier' institute like JNU an administration which refuses to listen to logic, which is willing to do away with constitutional provisions, and which has no regard for its own decision-making bodies and processes? .
At this juncture, the progressive sections in JNU have to come together to ensure that the JNU administration .
fully immediately withdraws the faulty cut-off criterion for OBC candidates. The full impJication of the historic HC .
verdict will have to be realised in JNU, and the OBC students who were criminally denied admission for no fault .
of theirs must be compensated and granted admission. .
.
FDIR appeals to the student community to participate in tonight's public meeting with faculty members to .
discuss the implications of the HC verdict at Godavari Dhaba from 9.30 pm onwards. .
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2010 ID-50923
.
.
.
Ouest For Socia I Justice: In the Wake of the HC Verdict JNU Community's Struggle for Correct .
Implementation of OBC Reservation .
and the HC Verdict .
.
Prof. P.K.YadaV, SLS, 1\ feml>cr .JNU EC Dr. Vivek Kumar, csss, .JNU Prof. Gopal Guru, CPS,JNU Dr. Rohan D'Souza, CSSP, JNU .
Prof. Chamanlal, c Tr.., JNU Prof. Nivedia Menon, sis, JNU Prof. Hambux, c TL,JNu Dr. G. Aiav, CPS, JNU .
Prot. Sona Jharia Minz, sc& s, J' u Dr. Rajan Kumar, SIS, I\Iember JNU EC Dr. Y.S. Alone, .,AA. JNlJ DiliP Mandai, Jiwc .
Dr. D.K.lobiyal, C&SS, JNU .
---+----------------9.9.10Tonight Godavari Dhaba 9.30pm .
.
"Procedure followed by ....JNU and the stand of the ... Union of India (UOI) regardmg reservation for OBCs is thus declared to be bad ... The policy adopted by the ...UOI & JNU amounts to the Executive taking away what the legislature has gi11en to the OBCs. The same cannot be pemutted to happen. The Act cannot be permitted to be used as a mode of making more seats available to the General (Unreserved) category than before; that was not the intent of the Act... " .
-Delhi High Court judge Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, in his recent verdict on OBC reservations .
, .
Two days back. the Delhi High Court reaffirmed what the progressive sections of the entire JNU ~ommunity and beyond have been reiterating for the past two years: that JNU has been wilfully denying admission to several OBC students tt10ugh ils patently lllegaf, illcgical, casteist interpretation of the cut-off criterion for OBC students. thus scuttling the proper imple-mentation of the OBC Reservation Act. The verdict could not more explicit -it clearly accuses the JNU administra-tion as well as the MHRD for 'defeating the very purpose' of the Act. .
Today. JNU stands shamefully ind1cted by the Delhi Hrgh Court for scuttling soc1al JUStice. Nothing could be more appall1ng for an Institution that prides rtself for 1ts commitment to socral JUStice. The question now arises: who should take responsibilfty for making OBC reservations in JNU 'illusionary' (as the judge correctly put it)? .
The answer is crystal clear. Dunng the past two years. the student community has several times brought this issue to the notice of no less than the Vrce Chancellor of JNU Every single offrcial rn charge of the admrssions process in the JNU adminrstration rs well aware of the objections repeatedly raised by JNUSU and the student community. Several faculty members had written to the VC way back in 2009 when the admrssions for the academ1c year 2009-10 were still going on, appealing to him to take note and correct the gross anomalies and illegalitres inherent 1n JNU s admission process. Several tnt~llectuals from outsrde JNU -rncludrng P.S. ~.rishnan former advisor to the MHRD on OBC reservations, as well as c1vil nghts activist and lawyer late K. Balagopal -al!;o pointed out (as the HC verdict has done) that JNU's position was 'bad'. .
After proJonged deliberation. JNU highest decision-making body, the Academic Council (AC) on 18 March 20 10. de-cteled to reject the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's illegal cut-off criteria. The dean's committee too. on 171/J June 2010. decided to implement the correct cut-off criteria for OBC students in keeping with the AC's overwhelming verdict. .
Despite all these efforts, the JNU administration remained adamant. And on 12 July 2010, just two days before the results were to be declared, JNU adm1nistratron shockingly overturned the Dean's committee's correct decision and reinstated the faulty Ad1tya Mukherjee committee's recommendations It is all the more appalling that the JNU administra-tion v1illingly chose to heed the 'legal op1n1on' of a lawyer representing t11e well-known antr-reservationist YFEl As the HC judgement now shows, this 'legal opinion' was clearly spurious and untenable. As a result, this year. only 15.9 of the legally mandated 27% OBC reservations were Implemented 1n JNU. For example. for the MA programme in JNU, only ~6% OBC reservation was implemented. Overall, more than 300 OBC seats have shockingly remained unfulfilled and subsequently transferred to the general category this year. .
' .
Clearly, the JNU administration has been no mere spectator: it has calculatedly acted to subvert the decision-making process in the university, bypassing even the Academic Council. The ideologrcal, casteist pr_ejudices of tile administration were so strong that it was w1111ng to disregard every sane appeal and advice 1n HS single-minded agenda to scuttle implementation or OBC reservations. ll is hrgh lime now that those responsrble for these acts of commission with the criminal scuttling of social justice be held accountable. Can we afford to have at the helm of a 'premier' institute like JNU an administration which refuses to listen to logic, which is willing to do away with constitutional provisions, and which has no regard for its own decision-making bodies and processes? .
At this juncture, the progressive sections in JNU have to come together to ensure that the JNU administration .
fully immediately withdraws the faulty cut-off criterion for OBC candidates. The full impJication of the historic HC .
verdict will have to be realised in JNU, and the OBC students who were criminally denied admission for no fault .
of theirs must be compensated and granted admission. .
.
FDIR appeals to the student community to participate in tonight's public meeting with faculty members to .
discuss the implications of the HC verdict at Godavari Dhaba from 9.30 pm onwards. .
.
.