PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56238
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JNUSU Elections 2013: Our Perspective and Agend~ .
For Pro9ressive Polic!:J Ch.an.9es To Make JNU More Sociati!:J tn.clusive ~ .
For Hostel Facilities for All JNU Students and .
En.han.ceW\ent of Fin.ancial Assistance! .
For a Studen.t MoveW\e'\t A9ain.st Recen.t Pofic!:J Offen.sives .
on. Hi9her Education. an.d Job Opportunities! For A JNUSU in. Active So fidarit!:) With People's MoveW\ents A9ain.st CoW\W\unalisW\) Corporate Land QrabJState Repression) Caste an.d Qen.der Vio/eYtce .
Reassert the Vision of a Socially Committed, Pro-Student, Pro-People JNUSU .
The upcoming JNUSU elections are being held in very challenging times -for the student movement and for the country. Our land. forests, minerals and all natural resources are being handed over on a platter to facilitate corporate profits and corruption, sexual violence as well as communal and casteist offensives are increasing even as the mastermind of the 2002 genocide is being promoted as the next Prime Minister; dissenting voices are being arbitrarily arrested and jailed and the witch-hunting of minorities continues. Tribals are being displaced from their forests, peasants from their lands, workers from their rights to form unions and students from their right to affordable, quality education and dignified employment. .
In this phase of all-round displacement, the agenda of student movement has to be one of inclusion and guarantee of rights of students in campuses and people over the country s resources and democratic spaces. We need a vision of student politics that will have the courage and commitment to talk truth to power, that will consistently resist all forms of state repression, that will not be fettered by ruling class politks. We need a vision that will not defend corruption, corporate loot and the sell-out of basic right, that will not defend communal hate campaigns, that will boldly imagine and execute creative and constructive campaigns to challenge the status quo and to broaden the horizons of student politics. .
With this courage and perspective, AISA in JNUSU had .
imagined and -spearheaded struggles on a range of .
progressive POLICY LEVEL issues: .
For a socially inclusive admission policy through .
restoration of deprivation points, resisting faulty cut-off .
in OBC reservation, recognition of madarsa certificates, .
and the ongoing struggle for reduction of Viva weightage! .
Against commercialization, 'user charges' and fee hike! .
For enhancing MCM, expanding fellowship duration! .
For Hostels for all and better health services! .
Against corporatization of campus by throwing out .
corporate outlets like Neslle and defending small vendors! .
For workers' rights and wages in the campus! .
Proposing an autonomous body like GSCASH tn the .
campus way back in 1996 itself long before the Visakha .
judgement! .
Against the imposition of Lyngdoh recommendations, .
Against censorship. Bans, surveillance!... .
During the past year, AISA played a significant role in the movement against rape, helping to shift the focus of the movement to women's fearless freedom and vigilantly ensuring implementation of an anti-rape law based on Justice Verma Committee report. AISA has mobilised students in Delhi against the policy offensive on higher .
but also JNU students by eroding the job prospects of JNU research scholars). AISA led the powerful students' protest against the communal fascist Modi's visit to SRCC. AISA has also taken consistent initiatives against minority witch-hunt, with AISA's JNUSU office bearers supporting the struggle for justice at Batla House, and visiting Lucknow in solidarity with struggle against custodial killing of Khalid Mujahid. AISA and its JNUSU office bearers also extended support for the struggles of Jamia Millia lslamia students. .
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In this phase since March 2012, when JNUSU election was restored after a long gap, JNU students have witnessed how AISA visualised and introduced several key policy-level issues and put them firmly on the map of JNU's student movement: such as reduction of weightage of viva marks, mandatory gender orientation programmes, setting up of a JNU Press and expanding the time period of the UGC fellowships to cover the entire research period. .
In the past one year, we have ensured significant achievements in some of our struggles: for instance, the process of starting the JNU Press is now in place, remote access to the Library's database has been ensured, UGC's attempts to curtail the JRF scholarships and subvert .
reservation in JRF were successfully rebuffed, institutional mechanisms to fix accountability and address violations of workers' rights were put in place in J N U, the JNU admission process was made more PH-friendly through JNUSU intervention in the EOO. A protracted struggle to double the MCM amount and extend the time period of the UGC fellowships forced a highly reluctant JNU administration to enhance the MCM to Rs 2000 and to create a corpus fund for research scholars during 4th and 5th year. This struggle to double the MCM amount and extend fellowship duration however has to be taken to its logical conclusion. To address massive hostel crisis, SPS dorm facilities for 150 students with mess facilities for Rs 1965 was ensured. Administrative attempts to curtail photocopying in JNU was successfully resisted, thus defending students' inalienable right to research material. New courses were introduced in SIS and SSS (including optionals for SL students), a separate centre for Korean language was started along with its long awaited M.Phil. programme, Metro feeder buses have started operating. .
While we have clinched some of our demands, more battles lie ahead. .
Issues of Social Justice and Inclusion .
Reducing Viva Weightage: Huge and systemic .
discrimination in viva marks was documented by the AISA led JNUSU which was in office since March-August .
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education in the form of FYUP (which affects not only DUll 2012. The struggle against lligh viva weightage must be .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56238
.
JNUSU Elections 2013: Our Perspective and Agend~ .
For Pro9ressive Polic!:J Ch.an.9es To Make JNU More Sociati!:J tn.clusive ~ .
For Hostel Facilities for All JNU Students and .
En.han.ceW\ent of Fin.ancial Assistance! .
For a Studen.t MoveW\e'\t A9ain.st Recen.t Pofic!:J Offen.sives .
on. Hi9her Education. an.d Job Opportunities! For A JNUSU in. Active So fidarit!:) With People's MoveW\ents A9ain.st CoW\W\unalisW\) Corporate Land QrabJState Repression) Caste an.d Qen.der Vio/eYtce .
Reassert the Vision of a Socially Committed, Pro-Student, Pro-People JNUSU .
The upcoming JNUSU elections are being held in very challenging times -for the student movement and for the country. Our land. forests, minerals and all natural resources are being handed over on a platter to facilitate corporate profits and corruption, sexual violence as well as communal and casteist offensives are increasing even as the mastermind of the 2002 genocide is being promoted as the next Prime Minister; dissenting voices are being arbitrarily arrested and jailed and the witch-hunting of minorities continues. Tribals are being displaced from their forests, peasants from their lands, workers from their rights to form unions and students from their right to affordable, quality education and dignified employment. .
In this phase of all-round displacement, the agenda of student movement has to be one of inclusion and guarantee of rights of students in campuses and people over the country s resources and democratic spaces. We need a vision of student politics that will have the courage and commitment to talk truth to power, that will consistently resist all forms of state repression, that will not be fettered by ruling class politks. We need a vision that will not defend corruption, corporate loot and the sell-out of basic right, that will not defend communal hate campaigns, that will boldly imagine and execute creative and constructive campaigns to challenge the status quo and to broaden the horizons of student politics. .
With this courage and perspective, AISA in JNUSU had .
imagined and -spearheaded struggles on a range of .
progressive POLICY LEVEL issues: .
For a socially inclusive admission policy through .
restoration of deprivation points, resisting faulty cut-off .
in OBC reservation, recognition of madarsa certificates, .
and the ongoing struggle for reduction of Viva weightage! .
Against commercialization, 'user charges' and fee hike! .
For enhancing MCM, expanding fellowship duration! .
For Hostels for all and better health services! .
Against corporatization of campus by throwing out .
corporate outlets like Neslle and defending small vendors! .
For workers' rights and wages in the campus! .
Proposing an autonomous body like GSCASH tn the .
campus way back in 1996 itself long before the Visakha .
judgement! .
Against the imposition of Lyngdoh recommendations, .
Against censorship. Bans, surveillance!... .
During the past year, AISA played a significant role in the movement against rape, helping to shift the focus of the movement to women's fearless freedom and vigilantly ensuring implementation of an anti-rape law based on Justice Verma Committee report. AISA has mobilised students in Delhi against the policy offensive on higher .
but also JNU students by eroding the job prospects of JNU research scholars). AISA led the powerful students' protest against the communal fascist Modi's visit to SRCC. AISA has also taken consistent initiatives against minority witch-hunt, with AISA's JNUSU office bearers supporting the struggle for justice at Batla House, and visiting Lucknow in solidarity with struggle against custodial killing of Khalid Mujahid. AISA and its JNUSU office bearers also extended support for the struggles of Jamia Millia lslamia students. .
.
In this phase since March 2012, when JNUSU election was restored after a long gap, JNU students have witnessed how AISA visualised and introduced several key policy-level issues and put them firmly on the map of JNU's student movement: such as reduction of weightage of viva marks, mandatory gender orientation programmes, setting up of a JNU Press and expanding the time period of the UGC fellowships to cover the entire research period. .
In the past one year, we have ensured significant achievements in some of our struggles: for instance, the process of starting the JNU Press is now in place, remote access to the Library's database has been ensured, UGC's attempts to curtail the JRF scholarships and subvert .
reservation in JRF were successfully rebuffed, institutional mechanisms to fix accountability and address violations of workers' rights were put in place in J N U, the JNU admission process was made more PH-friendly through JNUSU intervention in the EOO. A protracted struggle to double the MCM amount and extend the time period of the UGC fellowships forced a highly reluctant JNU administration to enhance the MCM to Rs 2000 and to create a corpus fund for research scholars during 4th and 5th year. This struggle to double the MCM amount and extend fellowship duration however has to be taken to its logical conclusion. To address massive hostel crisis, SPS dorm facilities for 150 students with mess facilities for Rs 1965 was ensured. Administrative attempts to curtail photocopying in JNU was successfully resisted, thus defending students' inalienable right to research material. New courses were introduced in SIS and SSS (including optionals for SL students), a separate centre for Korean language was started along with its long awaited M.Phil. programme, Metro feeder buses have started operating. .
While we have clinched some of our demands, more battles lie ahead. .
Issues of Social Justice and Inclusion .
Reducing Viva Weightage: Huge and systemic .
discrimination in viva marks was documented by the AISA led JNUSU which was in office since March-August .
.
education in the form of FYUP (which affects not only DUll 2012. The struggle against lligh viva weightage must be .
.
.
.