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PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2010 ID-58159

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Demand Withdrawal of the 'Restraint' order on JNiJ Forum! .

Stand in Defense of the Democratic Rights and Freedom of Expression .

The campus has witnessed an increasing tendency on the part of the .

administration to disregard and undermine the democratic aspirations of the .

largest constituent of the campus community: the students. Taking advantage of the .

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impositionof Lyngdoh and lack of anelected union, students are kept out of all decision-.

making bodies of the university, andwe are increasingly denied of a space to voice our .

opinion on issues that directly affect. The day today problems of the students -be it lack .

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construction. The demands for full and proper implementation of reservation in student's admissionand teacher's appointment, or a reduction .

of adequate hostel accommodation, round-the-clock healthcare facilities, etc. are being .

sidestepped while crores of rupees are being spent for 'beautification' and useless .

following World Bank's directives to "generate funds" it is in aspree to attract foreign funds for our research programmes. MoUs are being .

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in the weightage of MPhil viva marks are yet to be fulfilled. The administration claims lack of funds to address student's basic needs, while .

signed by the university with private corporations to conduct market-oriented research, and agreements are made with American and .

These policies are aimed towards making JNU a 'World Class' university, a euphemism for converting the campus into a knowledge-.

European universities for ueducational exchange" resulting from Indian ruling class's closer alignment with US imperialism as its agent. .

park where education and research fulfils the needs of the nee-liberal economy while ignoring socially-responsible study and research. .

Indeed,the administration is averse to a democratic culture and a model of pedagogy which keeps the people and the society at its centre. .

Such an education would encourage criticality and challenge the exploitative social relations existing in the society today, including the highly .

th~ c;tudents' movement played a decisive role. This is what makes JNU a unique university-it has always been known for criticality, dissent .

hierarchical andfeudal relations which the administration imposes on the students. In fact, if thereis still some space in JNU today for a .

people-oriented research, it is primarily due to the progr.essive political culture and activism of generations of students and teachers, where .

a111~rotest. The administration knows well that the students' movement of this campus and its political culture of dissent is the biggest hurdI .

towards fulfilling tts 'wortd-class' dreams of privatisation. It is this political culture that the administration·-and the Indian state behind rt-.

wants to destroy. The policy of the administration is very clear: those students and organisations that toe the line of the administration, whether ABVP, NSUI, SFI or YFE, will be patronised.while those who genuinely stand on its way will be persecuted. .

JNUis standing at a crucial crossroad at present. The imposition of Lyngdoh, the policies of the gover.1ment for higher education and the .

administration's authoritarian approach in aggressively attacking the student community poses agrave threat to everything that JNU stands for. Guided by the recommendations of Birta-Ambani ' Report and National Knowledge Commission Report on higher education, the present form of opposing privatisation, Operation Green Hunt, casteism, communal-fascism and so on. Grounds are prepared in this way for .

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Vice Chancellor and his prime henchman the Chief Proctor are out to stamp out any genuine students' resistance: whether it comes in the .

ideological baggage while the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in Technical and Medical Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, 2010 .

implementing major policy decisions to open up the higher education sector to private capital-both domestic and foreign. The Foreign .

Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010 allows the entry of foreign institutes with an empire of political and .

SEZs where workers have no rights to exercise their hard earned rights protected by the courts. The Universities for Innovation Bill 2010-an .

facilitates these foreign and domestic private educational institutions by keeping them outside the purview of Indian judicial scrutiny like the .

euphemism to loot the public exchequer to fill the private coffers-will let the use of public fundingfor private entrepreneurs to run universities .

with no government regulation. Under this legislation a University like ours can well be handed over to aprivate entrepreneur while the .

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government continue with the funding. The Educational Tribunals Bill 2010 denies rights of the students, teachers, and employees to seek .

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justice from apex courts in educational matters. The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutions Bill 2010 .

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rr<~ ..~ates certain educational institutions to take accreditation compulsorily while exempting certain others at the whims and fancies of the .

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central government. National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) Bill 2010 empower a new institution with the same .

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name and replaces the UGC with total control over universities by completely eroding autonomy of universities like JNU. When these six Bills .

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become legislations the aim of the Indian ruling classes to let the market have a free hand in the field of education will be complete. its grand plans for selling-out higher education. The administration is so threatened by the students that it has started carrying out The administration and its political masters in the government know that a radicai students' assertion in JNU is an impediment to students and their organisations in the campus. The 'restraining' of JNU Forum against War on People-another way of banning it-is only unprecedented acts of repression that completelyviolates the accepted norms and principles of JNU. That is why the selective targeting of .

crush our basic rights, even the right to protest and oppose the repressive government or administrative policies. The witch-hunt of students in an indication of the coming future. The administration, run by tyrants like SK Sopory and HK Bohidar will not stop short of any measure to .

the name of proctorial enquiry, closing downtheJNUSU office, blackmailing ~he protesting students totender apologies, etc. are all part of a .

larger attempt to dissuade students' politics andthereby depoliticise the campus, so that the lords of the pink palace can turn the campus into .

their fjQfdom and convert the students into their serfs. As perfect feudal lords, the VC andtheChief Proctor also maintains a bunch of ABVP .

/ ' lumpens who targets all political dissidents in the campus-be it Muslims, Dalits, OBCs, Kashmiris, or students who uphold revolutionaryI.

'2 religious sentiments'. The administrationpromptlyshow-caused AIBSF, while taking no actionon the sanghi-lumpens who indulged in .

targeted violence and rampant communal tirade. So the assault is on the entire student community, therefore the struggle must also be a politics. As the latest of its crimes, ABVPgoonsattackedAIBSF members, tore down posters, and createdsome noise against 'hurting of .

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united one. If we allowthe administration tosuccessfullymuzzle the voice of even one student or one student .

resist the anti student and anti-people policies carried out in this campus or country. Join tonight's protest march to .

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organisation, the way will be pavedfor the silencing of the entire student community, which will thenbein noposition to .

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demand the students' democratic rights and freedom ofexpression/ .

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