PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63642
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such a proposal is an empty tokenism for It amounted to 100°/o subsidy for 0°/o applicants, when it is well known.
that availing a BPL certificate is a process fraught with many problems, and there is no adequate data on the extent to.
which such families are able to avail education, let alone enter the the realm of higher education and apply for a JNU.
prospectus. The BPL waiver simply cannot compensate or counterbalance the damage that the increased pros~ec~us.
fees have inflicted. Firstly, the fees hike has damaged the basic ethical premise that universities or admiSSIOn.
processes cannot be run like commercial and profiteering ventures. Secondly, through higher prices, it h~s.
discouraged and actually squeezed out those in the social ladder who are struggling against odds to begin to eqUip.
themseJves with an education, and aspire to come for higher education. Administration.
substantial arguments led a complete breakdown of all meaningful dialogue on 20 Feb. After this, in spite of .
's refusal to engage with theserepeated attempts, no dialogue could be resumed and all our genuine efforts in this regard came to a naught..
After five days of failed efforts to resume discussion, on Wednesday, 25 February, the JNUSU held a protest.
demonstration, where it closed the counter for the sale of forms. This step was meant to indicate the closing down.
of dialogue on the part of the administration, and the fact that decisions taken by the administration were.
serving to 'close down access' to JNU for a large number ofstudents across the country. There was absolutely.
no violence involved in this protest, none of the officials on duty were physically or even verbally assaulted in any way,.
nor was any harm done to official property. Further, the incontrovertible logic is that this step could in no way prevent.
the sale of forms in outlets across the city and this country; rather, it was meant to bring student dissatisfaction on theissue once again to the notice of the administration.But the administration responded immediately, not with dialogue but with an automatic crackdown. TheAdministration handed show-cause notice to these five activists ---and then declared them rusticated within.
two hours, much before they got any time to respond..
Why was the JNU Administration in such haste to rusticate these students and declare them out-of-bounds? Wecannot help contrasting this response with the selfsame Administration's indulgent attitude when communallumpens engaged in open violence and vandalism on the night of the JNUSU Presidential Debate in the 2007.
elections. Despite the fact that this violence took place in full view of JNU's security staff [some of whom were.
themselves injured], the Administration mysteriously turned a blind eye. It was only after sustained student proteststhat the Administration eventually set up an Enquiry Committee to look into the incident. This Committee was meant to.
complete its task in 6 weeks, but took 6 months to come up with a report. Yet, the JNU Administration took no punitive.
action against those named as guilty in the report! The guilty were let off with a mere 'warning'!.
In the present situation, it is obvious that the Administration was determined to crack down on the democraticprotest of students, at the slightest pretext; they did away with the pretence of dialogue and took to wieldingthe stick. .
Against Administrative Waste, Damage and CommercializationThe JNU administration is trying to peddle the misinformation that JNU students who are 'rich', are basically struggling.
only to save themselves a cost of a mere 80 rupees in buying a new prospectus when applying for further courses..
Nothing could be further from the truth. Such administrative propaganda is a mere smokescreen to hide the practisesof wanton waste, damage and commercialisation that the JNU Administration has been indulging in for the past few.
months. The student protest against the continued sale of the prospectus at increased rates, must be seen as a.
continuation of the entire phase of struggle which has lasted over a month and which has been conducted by the.
JNUSU leadership in a reasoned and responsible manner..
All the above concerns are in a sense part of a vision that all of us in the JNU community dream and stand for. What, we are struggling to retain is the basic ethics on which a higher education institution like JNU will function: will JNUcontinue to be socially-inclusive and accessible, or will JNU be run like a commercial enterprise based on crude.
considerations ofamassing profit? .
an 'elite' institution by closing down access to students of deprive groups; the logic of running a university.
not as an institute of higher learning but on a 'profit'.
signboards and mindless 'beautificationbasis; the wanton wastage of resources on plasma TVs, .
.
The issues at stake affect all of us ---the loss of green spaces in the campus; insidious attempts to make JNU .
.
' drives, alongside an insistence that students be made to pay forbasic services. The manner in which this administration is proceeding unilaterally in its course of action.
leads to grave concerns that the very character of JNU as an institution of repute and critical thinking, built up.
by so many generations over the years is at stake..
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JNUSU had earlier also issued an appeal to the teaching community for solidarity on the entire range of these matterswhich affect all of us, each and every member of the university community. We urge you to intervene to ensure thatthe rustications on student activists are removed, that the administration addresses the legitimate concernsof the student community and initiate a productive dialogue with the JNUSU so that a democratic consensusmay be evolved on these issues of pressing concern for the university community as a whole..
Sandeep Shcphalika Pallavi Deka.
.. President, JNUSV Md. Mobeen Alam.
Vice-President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNVSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU .
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PaRCha - JNU - JNUSU - 2008 ID-63642
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such a proposal is an empty tokenism for It amounted to 100°/o subsidy for 0°/o applicants, when it is well known.
that availing a BPL certificate is a process fraught with many problems, and there is no adequate data on the extent to.
which such families are able to avail education, let alone enter the the realm of higher education and apply for a JNU.
prospectus. The BPL waiver simply cannot compensate or counterbalance the damage that the increased pros~ec~us.
fees have inflicted. Firstly, the fees hike has damaged the basic ethical premise that universities or admiSSIOn.
processes cannot be run like commercial and profiteering ventures. Secondly, through higher prices, it h~s.
discouraged and actually squeezed out those in the social ladder who are struggling against odds to begin to eqUip.
themseJves with an education, and aspire to come for higher education. Administration.
substantial arguments led a complete breakdown of all meaningful dialogue on 20 Feb. After this, in spite of .
's refusal to engage with theserepeated attempts, no dialogue could be resumed and all our genuine efforts in this regard came to a naught..
After five days of failed efforts to resume discussion, on Wednesday, 25 February, the JNUSU held a protest.
demonstration, where it closed the counter for the sale of forms. This step was meant to indicate the closing down.
of dialogue on the part of the administration, and the fact that decisions taken by the administration were.
serving to 'close down access' to JNU for a large number ofstudents across the country. There was absolutely.
no violence involved in this protest, none of the officials on duty were physically or even verbally assaulted in any way,.
nor was any harm done to official property. Further, the incontrovertible logic is that this step could in no way prevent.
the sale of forms in outlets across the city and this country; rather, it was meant to bring student dissatisfaction on theissue once again to the notice of the administration.But the administration responded immediately, not with dialogue but with an automatic crackdown. TheAdministration handed show-cause notice to these five activists ---and then declared them rusticated within.
two hours, much before they got any time to respond..
Why was the JNU Administration in such haste to rusticate these students and declare them out-of-bounds? Wecannot help contrasting this response with the selfsame Administration's indulgent attitude when communallumpens engaged in open violence and vandalism on the night of the JNUSU Presidential Debate in the 2007.
elections. Despite the fact that this violence took place in full view of JNU's security staff [some of whom were.
themselves injured], the Administration mysteriously turned a blind eye. It was only after sustained student proteststhat the Administration eventually set up an Enquiry Committee to look into the incident. This Committee was meant to.
complete its task in 6 weeks, but took 6 months to come up with a report. Yet, the JNU Administration took no punitive.
action against those named as guilty in the report! The guilty were let off with a mere 'warning'!.
In the present situation, it is obvious that the Administration was determined to crack down on the democraticprotest of students, at the slightest pretext; they did away with the pretence of dialogue and took to wieldingthe stick. .
Against Administrative Waste, Damage and CommercializationThe JNU administration is trying to peddle the misinformation that JNU students who are 'rich', are basically struggling.
only to save themselves a cost of a mere 80 rupees in buying a new prospectus when applying for further courses..
Nothing could be further from the truth. Such administrative propaganda is a mere smokescreen to hide the practisesof wanton waste, damage and commercialisation that the JNU Administration has been indulging in for the past few.
months. The student protest against the continued sale of the prospectus at increased rates, must be seen as a.
continuation of the entire phase of struggle which has lasted over a month and which has been conducted by the.
JNUSU leadership in a reasoned and responsible manner..
All the above concerns are in a sense part of a vision that all of us in the JNU community dream and stand for. What, we are struggling to retain is the basic ethics on which a higher education institution like JNU will function: will JNUcontinue to be socially-inclusive and accessible, or will JNU be run like a commercial enterprise based on crude.
considerations ofamassing profit? .
an 'elite' institution by closing down access to students of deprive groups; the logic of running a university.
not as an institute of higher learning but on a 'profit'.
signboards and mindless 'beautificationbasis; the wanton wastage of resources on plasma TVs, .
.
The issues at stake affect all of us ---the loss of green spaces in the campus; insidious attempts to make JNU .
.
' drives, alongside an insistence that students be made to pay forbasic services. The manner in which this administration is proceeding unilaterally in its course of action.
leads to grave concerns that the very character of JNU as an institution of repute and critical thinking, built up.
by so many generations over the years is at stake..
. :' :. :· . t~:·· .
JNUSU had earlier also issued an appeal to the teaching community for solidarity on the entire range of these matterswhich affect all of us, each and every member of the university community. We urge you to intervene to ensure thatthe rustications on student activists are removed, that the administration addresses the legitimate concernsof the student community and initiate a productive dialogue with the JNUSU so that a democratic consensusmay be evolved on these issues of pressing concern for the university community as a whole..
Sandeep Shcphalika Pallavi Deka.
.. President, JNUSV Md. Mobeen Alam.
Vice-President, JNUSU Gen. Secy., JNVSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU .
'· \, .
2 .
·~·. ' .. ···~· !li r,, .,1· ;+ ·:·.
, ;'; ;:! I:, 11. .v, ,, .. -· j: .
"!. .
... ~-.
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