PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 2008 ID-68927
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authQJit~rian resp9nse 9f thfi! aQministration.
~ and all sectiQ:ns Qf the JNU commvnity rQse in unison · g· ~,.·.·n,s·t-thfa~minJ~trQtion,. which ~as for:ced,to back ?own and accept ~he demanc;Js _Qf the_ students. TempQrary-ac;comm~·wprQvided at Mahanadi h9stel, and four new h9stels ~Mahi~andaVJ, Loh1t, Chandrabhaga and Yamuna, apartoi=.
one m9re wing to Tapti hqstel came up as a rest,~It pf this historic stryggle. As SFI has been pointing QUt C9"$iStently.
for the· l~st two ·years,:altern~ti'le accommodati9n to stu~ent~ without hQStel~ is w~r;y much a feasible opti9n now, arid.the.
Union which will t>e elected in the·upcomin~ elections mu·st take up the demand with 9ue seriousness and sincerity. .
Finn Resistance Against Communalism .
The ~ommunal~fascist f9rces whic.h gained strength in the country during the 1990s and the early 2000s were;resisted in the.campus by SFI-lec;f Unions. Attempts to saffronlse education, reflectea in moves like the proposal to introduce eot~rsessuch as ·Hvman consciousnesf as .part of the X Plan Proposals in 2001 , were defeated by the strength of themoveme·nt le(fby·the ~Fl-Ied Union. There was even the a1tempt by the RS$ to target JNU and the $Fl-Ied JNUSU as ac;;en of 151 agents". There was an incident of violence during an lndo-Pak Mushaira held in JNI,J on 29 April 20()0, wherethree qrunken disrllptorq {one of whqm brandished a r~volver) were beateft,up only to later fin9 that two of them were Army.
officers: The Sangh Parivar then demanded that the 'lSI activities' in JNIJ be investigated, and the 'Bahrf Commission ofEnquiry' was s'.
et up in pliant response to this absurd demand. Such targeting, however, was defeated by the steadfastresistance of the stuc;fents' movement led by the SFl-Ied JNUSU. .
Struggles for Gender Justice .
The struggle fer an institution to deal with cases of sexual harassment took off in JNU in 1996-97, as the ABVP-winning amajority in the JNUSL) Council that year had led-to a steep rise in instances of violence...and -s.exual -harassmem in. the-campus. The entire gender-sensitive,· secular and democratic minded student community rallied behind the SFI~JNUSUin protests and a prot~acted fight for justice, and the Vishaka judgement of the Supreme Court in 1997 bolster~ the . struggl~.! On the eve of th~ lryternational Women·~ Day in 19~8 on behalf of the JNUSU, a state leveJ, COflV~tion-(inaugurated by Capt. Lakshmi S.ehgal) was held, where the UnioR presented a students'_draft for a Committee AgainstSexual Harassment. Afte.r dis·c~ssions and agitations that lasted for many months, the GSCASH was set up on March 8,.
1999. This hist9ry of the JNUSU's leading role in the formation of the GSCJXSH assumes ,particular significance at a timewhen the GSCASH has come '~nder-attack by the very JNUSU office-bearers who are supposed to defend it.
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~tr~ggles for Scholarships ; .
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The last tim~ that the Merit-Cvm-Means.(MCM) scholarships were increased in JNU as a result of an agitation was in 2006..
The famQus MCM agitation of 2006 was envis?ged and led by the JNUSU office-bearers from SFI. In the face of stiff.
Qpposition from the aqministrqtiQn wflich claimed that the students of JNU are all well-off1 the office--bearers fromSFI qid a' campus-wide .survey among students to conclusively prove the need for enhancing the financialassistanc;e to students. The survey showed. that 59% of students faced financial problems, and that 65% of researchscHolars fa<;ed financ:;ial constraints. '. lt also showed that ·75% of SCISTNH/PH students faced financial problems. The.
agitatio-n found massive support among t~e· students, who rallied behinQ the JNUSU office-bearers ·from SFI 90 universitystrikes, writing of mass protest letters, massive protest demonstrations, refay hunger strikes-and finally, an indefinite hunger.
. . ·-,strike that lasted for ·nine days~ Following the agitation, the ·adminjstration was forced to enhance the MCM.
sc.hQtar.sh.ip amount-n-om Rs. ~00 to Rs. 1500~ TJ;re sharp contrastwttb the·current..situation, where the outgoing .AISA-Jedt1nian refiJsed-tG-6tage:.even a single protest in the last one-year on-the Issue .of MCM schoJarships, is ence agaiA palpable.here. i .
rhe-;neee qf the hour~s.. to revi~e the fightin_g traditions ol-th.e JNUSU io oFder to -concretelY advaJ:tce students~ rights;: We.appeal to the stu~ent community to rally behind the SFI in this important struggre..
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Srab~ni, .
Vaswamathan V, --Conyenor, Central Campaign Committee, SFI Co-Convenor, Central Campaign Committee. SA .
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SFI Panel for ]NUSU Elections ZQ 14~15 .
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Amal P P.
~ sss .
Prasanta Kumar Sahu.
Balu S.
' Saojukta Nath.
Oipsita Dhar.
President-Pindiga Ambedl{ar Shibin Xavier ·.
Manish Kumali.
. Sudeep Kumar.
Satarupa Chakraborty.
Vice-President-Salini L R .
Twinkle Siwac.h SAANisam AsatK.J.
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<;;en~ral Secretary.-Najeebv -R SL --.
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AdarshMV CSLG.
~ jqin.t Secr-f!;tary Dinesh l{ataria AksbatSeth Jeemut Ptatim-Das .
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.Kumaii AnjaliMd Amlr-Mafik -SBT.
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PaRCha - JNU - SFI - 2008 ID-68927
.
~~ u--,-n -w .
~ ,~ .
/ 1.
.
,'.
authQJit~rian resp9nse 9f thfi! aQministration.
~ and all sectiQ:ns Qf the JNU commvnity rQse in unison · g· ~,.·.·n,s·t-thfa~minJ~trQtion,. which ~as for:ced,to back ?own and accept ~he demanc;Js _Qf the_ students. TempQrary-ac;comm~·wprQvided at Mahanadi h9stel, and four new h9stels ~Mahi~andaVJ, Loh1t, Chandrabhaga and Yamuna, apartoi=.
one m9re wing to Tapti hqstel came up as a rest,~It pf this historic stryggle. As SFI has been pointing QUt C9"$iStently.
for the· l~st two ·years,:altern~ti'le accommodati9n to stu~ent~ without hQStel~ is w~r;y much a feasible opti9n now, arid.the.
Union which will t>e elected in the·upcomin~ elections mu·st take up the demand with 9ue seriousness and sincerity. .
Finn Resistance Against Communalism .
The ~ommunal~fascist f9rces whic.h gained strength in the country during the 1990s and the early 2000s were;resisted in the.campus by SFI-lec;f Unions. Attempts to saffronlse education, reflectea in moves like the proposal to introduce eot~rsessuch as ·Hvman consciousnesf as .part of the X Plan Proposals in 2001 , were defeated by the strength of themoveme·nt le(fby·the ~Fl-Ied Union. There was even the a1tempt by the RS$ to target JNU and the $Fl-Ied JNUSU as ac;;en of 151 agents". There was an incident of violence during an lndo-Pak Mushaira held in JNI,J on 29 April 20()0, wherethree qrunken disrllptorq {one of whqm brandished a r~volver) were beateft,up only to later fin9 that two of them were Army.
officers: The Sangh Parivar then demanded that the 'lSI activities' in JNIJ be investigated, and the 'Bahrf Commission ofEnquiry' was s'.
et up in pliant response to this absurd demand. Such targeting, however, was defeated by the steadfastresistance of the stuc;fents' movement led by the SFl-Ied JNUSU. .
Struggles for Gender Justice .
The struggle fer an institution to deal with cases of sexual harassment took off in JNU in 1996-97, as the ABVP-winning amajority in the JNUSL) Council that year had led-to a steep rise in instances of violence...and -s.exual -harassmem in. the-campus. The entire gender-sensitive,· secular and democratic minded student community rallied behind the SFI~JNUSUin protests and a prot~acted fight for justice, and the Vishaka judgement of the Supreme Court in 1997 bolster~ the . struggl~.! On the eve of th~ lryternational Women·~ Day in 19~8 on behalf of the JNUSU, a state leveJ, COflV~tion-(inaugurated by Capt. Lakshmi S.ehgal) was held, where the UnioR presented a students'_draft for a Committee AgainstSexual Harassment. Afte.r dis·c~ssions and agitations that lasted for many months, the GSCASH was set up on March 8,.
1999. This hist9ry of the JNUSU's leading role in the formation of the GSCJXSH assumes ,particular significance at a timewhen the GSCASH has come '~nder-attack by the very JNUSU office-bearers who are supposed to defend it.
. I .
~tr~ggles for Scholarships ; .
I .
The last tim~ that the Merit-Cvm-Means.(MCM) scholarships were increased in JNU as a result of an agitation was in 2006..
The famQus MCM agitation of 2006 was envis?ged and led by the JNUSU office-bearers from SFI. In the face of stiff.
Qpposition from the aqministrqtiQn wflich claimed that the students of JNU are all well-off1 the office--bearers fromSFI qid a' campus-wide .survey among students to conclusively prove the need for enhancing the financialassistanc;e to students. The survey showed. that 59% of students faced financial problems, and that 65% of researchscHolars fa<;ed financ:;ial constraints. '. lt also showed that ·75% of SCISTNH/PH students faced financial problems. The.
agitatio-n found massive support among t~e· students, who rallied behinQ the JNUSU office-bearers ·from SFI 90 universitystrikes, writing of mass protest letters, massive protest demonstrations, refay hunger strikes-and finally, an indefinite hunger.
. . ·-,strike that lasted for ·nine days~ Following the agitation, the ·adminjstration was forced to enhance the MCM.
sc.hQtar.sh.ip amount-n-om Rs. ~00 to Rs. 1500~ TJ;re sharp contrastwttb the·current..situation, where the outgoing .AISA-Jedt1nian refiJsed-tG-6tage:.even a single protest in the last one-year on-the Issue .of MCM schoJarships, is ence agaiA palpable.here. i .
rhe-;neee qf the hour~s.. to revi~e the fightin_g traditions ol-th.e JNUSU io oFder to -concretelY advaJ:tce students~ rights;: We.appeal to the stu~ent community to rally behind the SFI in this important struggre..
..
$91-" Sdi-.
Srab~ni, .
Vaswamathan V, --Conyenor, Central Campaign Committee, SFI Co-Convenor, Central Campaign Committee. SA .
-.
-. .
SIS.
SFI Panel for ]NUSU Elections ZQ 14~15 .
.
Amal P P.
~ sss .
Prasanta Kumar Sahu.
Balu S.
' Saojukta Nath.
Oipsita Dhar.
President-Pindiga Ambedl{ar Shibin Xavier ·.
Manish Kumali.
. Sudeep Kumar.
Satarupa Chakraborty.
Vice-President-Salini L R .
Twinkle Siwac.h SAANisam AsatK.J.
I.
<;;en~ral Secretary.-Najeebv -R SL --.
.
-.
AdarshMV CSLG.
~ jqin.t Secr-f!;tary Dinesh l{ataria AksbatSeth Jeemut Ptatim-Das .
r ---~-----~~~--.........
.
.Kumaii AnjaliMd Amlr-Mafik -SBT.
.. SnJtiMD AparncrC R.
;.< .
/ .
I .
0 . ··- J .
... ,..
-~. Y!l· ...~.t· - .
.. -.
.