PaRCha - JNU - UDSF BSF AIBSF - 2012 ID-71086
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Aditya Mukherjee Committee's Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed a.ack in the AC MeetingI .
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Aditya Mukherjee Committee's Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed Back in the AC MeetingI .
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Strengthen The Spirited Unity of Teachers and Students For.
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19.3 .10 .
Defending and Implementing Reservations in JNUI .
Participants on the MASS RELAY HUNGER STRIKE of 17-18 March .
Aamirl Abdul Baseer, Abhay, Agnitra, Akashdeep Singh, Akhil, Akshay, Amenia, Amit, Amrin, Anand, Ani! Gupta,.
Anil Kr. Varma, Anil Kumar, Anurag, Apurva, Aqsa, Ardra, Arun Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Meena. Bhupendra .
Singh, Bony Kumar, Brajesh, Chandan, Chandramani, Chandraprakash, Chittaranjan, Debalina, Deep Kr. Mittal,.
Devina, Dinesh Kumar, Feroz, Ganesh M., Gaurav, Gautam, Gunamani, Hemant, Jitendra Kr Chaudhary, Kaushal,.
Khatija, Kumar Saurav, Madhav Gopal, Mahendra, MahfoozAiam, Mangalam, Maniben, Manilata, Manish, Mary.
Toppo, Md. Jilani, Mujtaba Jamal, Mustaq, Nazim, Nef?lesh Tripathi, Niharika, Niranjan,Om Prasad, P.K. Sethi,.
Piyush, Pramod Kumar, Praveen, Punit, Radhika, Rahul, Rajnish, Rakesh, Rameez, Ramesh,'Ramratan .
Mahraddha, Rauf, Ravi, S. Satyanarayan, Saket, Sanchi, Sanjay Suman, Santosh, Santosh, Shafat, ShafiAhmed,.
Shailesh, Shamim, Shamsurrab, Shankar, Sharmistha, Shashwat, Shewli, Shivlochan, Shriya, Shubhash, Shweta,.
Sonu, Sreemoyi, Srinayani, Suraj, Swami Kundan, Swati, Tulsi, Uday, Vikash, Vikram, Vimal Kr. Kashyap, Vinod .
Arya, Vishal, Vishesh .
The past week has seen massive support from the entire JNU community for the movement against the JNU administration's efforts to scuttle reservations and social justice in JNU. FDIR thanks the student community for the solidarity with the ongoing struggle for proper implementation of reservations in JNU, and for the large participation in the public meetings, hunger strikes, protest demonstrations and dharnas called in the past few days. We also congratu-late alf the Hunger Strikers and their massive response in the Mass Relay Hunger strke on the last day. Students and teachers alike have expressed their anger against the blatant manner in which constitutional provisions for ensuring social inclusion in institutions of higher education are being violated with impunity in JNU. .
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As a result of the sustained pressure built up over time, JNU's Academic Council decided yesterday to reject the proposals of the Aditya Mukherjee Committee regarding the cut-off criteria for OBC students seeking admission in JNU. After a long debate, the AC decided that instead of continuing to follow this illegal and illogical criteria which is denying admission to several eligible OBC students, JNU should consider following the model of the Central JJniver-sity of Hyderabad which is correctly interpreting the MHRD guidelines and Supreme Court directives to fu'lfill the .
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OBC quota. A committee consisting of the Deans of all schools will look into the matter as soon as possible and take a final decision so that the correct criterion is made operative from the coming admissions this year itself. I .
Regarding the implementation of SC/ST reservations in faculty positions, the strong Ptes.e.n.'"e__a.R"C("arguments of several teachers in favour of reservations prevented the AC from endorsing the JNU administration's anti-reservation designs. The AC however did not come to a final decision, since it was adjourned. The next AC will take a final decision .
on this issue. .
Following the AC meeting, FDIR called off the indefinite hunger strike in the presence of several faculty members who congratulated the student community for their sustained struggle and their role in making the blatant subversion of social justice a major issue in the entire JNU community. .
While we have achieved a major victory in pushing back the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's casteist and illegal formula, the battle is however far from over.The fact that the Aditya Mukherjee committee recommendations will NOT be applied in the coming academic session is a victory for the basic point that the student community has repeat-.
edly made over the past two years. Howevec in the days to come, we have to continue the struggle and the mobiliza-tion to ensure that the Deans' committee constituted to take a final decision upholds the basic concern regarding the criminal denial of admission to OBC students due to a faulty, illegal and illogical cut-off criteria. .
The issue of the faulty cut-off criteria is not a ne·w one. JNUSU and the student community had pointed thi,s out to the administration way back in 2008. However, despite opposition from JNUSU, Prof. Aditya Mukherjee (who is known to have strong anti-reservation views) was made the Chairperson of the committee specificaJiy set up to look into the cut-off criteria. This committee repeatedly ratified the JNU administration's faulty and legally untenable position/t:,he entire JNU community has to be vigilant to ensure that the Issue of social justice is not scuttled once more by pe~pie who misuse their responsible posts in the administration to scuttle constitutionaily mandated provisions according to their personal whims and fancies. The decision at the Deans' Committee must be taken with ':Jtmost concern for logic,for the law, and most i,m.portantly, keeping in mind the supre,me concern for social justice. The indivldufl jdeolo1ical.
persuasions of the committee members cannot be allowed to scuttle social iustlce as has been happening so tar. .
While we thank the student community for their support for our efforts over the past month to build a move-.
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yo pment in favouo r of social justice in·this campus, we would also like to express our shoc·k and pain overthe reaction and---.......!___, ftra:&nizations towards FDIR. We have repeatedly been accused by SFI, PSU and OSU (with .
-. --· · -----,.,....G_--nmanship'. PSU and SFI have also alleged that we are .
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PaRCha - JNU - UDSF BSF AIBSF - 2012 ID-71086
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.
Aditya Mukherjee Committee's Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed a.ack in the AC MeetingI .
' .
.
Aditya Mukherjee Committee's Faulty Cut-Off Norm Pushed Back in the AC MeetingI .
.
Strengthen The Spirited Unity of Teachers and Students For.
.
19.3 .10 .
Defending and Implementing Reservations in JNUI .
Participants on the MASS RELAY HUNGER STRIKE of 17-18 March .
Aamirl Abdul Baseer, Abhay, Agnitra, Akashdeep Singh, Akhil, Akshay, Amenia, Amit, Amrin, Anand, Ani! Gupta,.
Anil Kr. Varma, Anil Kumar, Anurag, Apurva, Aqsa, Ardra, Arun Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Ashok Meena. Bhupendra .
Singh, Bony Kumar, Brajesh, Chandan, Chandramani, Chandraprakash, Chittaranjan, Debalina, Deep Kr. Mittal,.
Devina, Dinesh Kumar, Feroz, Ganesh M., Gaurav, Gautam, Gunamani, Hemant, Jitendra Kr Chaudhary, Kaushal,.
Khatija, Kumar Saurav, Madhav Gopal, Mahendra, MahfoozAiam, Mangalam, Maniben, Manilata, Manish, Mary.
Toppo, Md. Jilani, Mujtaba Jamal, Mustaq, Nazim, Nef?lesh Tripathi, Niharika, Niranjan,Om Prasad, P.K. Sethi,.
Piyush, Pramod Kumar, Praveen, Punit, Radhika, Rahul, Rajnish, Rakesh, Rameez, Ramesh,'Ramratan .
Mahraddha, Rauf, Ravi, S. Satyanarayan, Saket, Sanchi, Sanjay Suman, Santosh, Santosh, Shafat, ShafiAhmed,.
Shailesh, Shamim, Shamsurrab, Shankar, Sharmistha, Shashwat, Shewli, Shivlochan, Shriya, Shubhash, Shweta,.
Sonu, Sreemoyi, Srinayani, Suraj, Swami Kundan, Swati, Tulsi, Uday, Vikash, Vikram, Vimal Kr. Kashyap, Vinod .
Arya, Vishal, Vishesh .
The past week has seen massive support from the entire JNU community for the movement against the JNU administration's efforts to scuttle reservations and social justice in JNU. FDIR thanks the student community for the solidarity with the ongoing struggle for proper implementation of reservations in JNU, and for the large participation in the public meetings, hunger strikes, protest demonstrations and dharnas called in the past few days. We also congratu-late alf the Hunger Strikers and their massive response in the Mass Relay Hunger strke on the last day. Students and teachers alike have expressed their anger against the blatant manner in which constitutional provisions for ensuring social inclusion in institutions of higher education are being violated with impunity in JNU. .
, .
As a result of the sustained pressure built up over time, JNU's Academic Council decided yesterday to reject the proposals of the Aditya Mukherjee Committee regarding the cut-off criteria for OBC students seeking admission in JNU. After a long debate, the AC decided that instead of continuing to follow this illegal and illogical criteria which is denying admission to several eligible OBC students, JNU should consider following the model of the Central JJniver-sity of Hyderabad which is correctly interpreting the MHRD guidelines and Supreme Court directives to fu'lfill the .
'.
OBC quota. A committee consisting of the Deans of all schools will look into the matter as soon as possible and take a final decision so that the correct criterion is made operative from the coming admissions this year itself. I .
Regarding the implementation of SC/ST reservations in faculty positions, the strong Ptes.e.n.'"e__a.R"C("arguments of several teachers in favour of reservations prevented the AC from endorsing the JNU administration's anti-reservation designs. The AC however did not come to a final decision, since it was adjourned. The next AC will take a final decision .
on this issue. .
Following the AC meeting, FDIR called off the indefinite hunger strike in the presence of several faculty members who congratulated the student community for their sustained struggle and their role in making the blatant subversion of social justice a major issue in the entire JNU community. .
While we have achieved a major victory in pushing back the Aditya Mukherjee Committee's casteist and illegal formula, the battle is however far from over.The fact that the Aditya Mukherjee committee recommendations will NOT be applied in the coming academic session is a victory for the basic point that the student community has repeat-.
edly made over the past two years. Howevec in the days to come, we have to continue the struggle and the mobiliza-tion to ensure that the Deans' committee constituted to take a final decision upholds the basic concern regarding the criminal denial of admission to OBC students due to a faulty, illegal and illogical cut-off criteria. .
The issue of the faulty cut-off criteria is not a ne·w one. JNUSU and the student community had pointed thi,s out to the administration way back in 2008. However, despite opposition from JNUSU, Prof. Aditya Mukherjee (who is known to have strong anti-reservation views) was made the Chairperson of the committee specificaJiy set up to look into the cut-off criteria. This committee repeatedly ratified the JNU administration's faulty and legally untenable position/t:,he entire JNU community has to be vigilant to ensure that the Issue of social justice is not scuttled once more by pe~pie who misuse their responsible posts in the administration to scuttle constitutionaily mandated provisions according to their personal whims and fancies. The decision at the Deans' Committee must be taken with ':Jtmost concern for logic,for the law, and most i,m.portantly, keeping in mind the supre,me concern for social justice. The indivldufl jdeolo1ical.
persuasions of the committee members cannot be allowed to scuttle social iustlce as has been happening so tar. .
While we thank the student community for their support for our efforts over the past month to build a move-.
. .. .
. .
yo pment in favouo r of social justice in·this campus, we would also like to express our shoc·k and pain overthe reaction and---.......!___, ftra:&nizations towards FDIR. We have repeatedly been accused by SFI, PSU and OSU (with .
-. --· · -----,.,....G_--nmanship'. PSU and SFI have also alleged that we are .
.
.