PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2006 ID-16623
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Solidarity With Students and Peoples Movements .
As students, we have the privilege of information, insight, and sensitivity towards the contradictions and struggles in our society. We believe that our involvement cannot remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the students movement must have an integral link with social movements. .
In 2004, the women of Manipur shook the conscience of the nation with their nude protest against the rape and killing of Manorama Devi by Army jawans, and sparked off a mass movement against the draconian killer law AFSPA. Then AISA mobilised the students of JNU in several protests and campaigns in the capital. While the NSUI, ABVP, SFI-AISF stood in support of the AFSPA, the AISA President and the JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the height of the movement. .
When tribals protesting against displacement were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2 this year, the AISA-led JNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. When people of the Narmada Bachao Andolan came on the streets of Delhi last summer, in protest against the UPA Govt.s decision to raise the height of the dam and drown out the land and livelihood of thousands, AISA stood by them shoulder to shoulder. The President of the AISA-led JNUSU, Mona Das, and Awadhesh Tripathi from AISA sat on a week-long hunger strike in support of the NBA agitation, and AISA activists also visited the Narmada Valley to participate in the NBAs Pol-Khol Yatra. .
The AISA-led JNUSU responded promptly to the tsunami tragedy, organising massive collection drives in which the .
entire JNU student community participated. AISA also sent a relief team to the affected areas of Nagapattinam. The AISA-led JNUSU joined the massive movement of the students of Jadavpur University against the police crackdown on a peaceful hunger strike (while the SFI peddled the lie that it was students, not police, who had indulged in brutality). To familiarise JNU with the struggles of the tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the Kashipur-Koraput-Kalahandi zone of Orissa, AISA councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the saummer vacation of 2005. .
The JNUSU President was among the first to visit the Honda workers in Gurgaon, the very night after their brutalisation by the Haryana Police. The AISA-led JNUSU actively participated in the workers struggle including the Haryana Bandh. The AISA-led JNUSU played a leading role in solidarity with the struggle of Jamia students this semester. .
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Student Representation to AC, BoS: .
The demand for restoration of elected representation to the AC and Board of Studies was a long-standing one. It was the AISA-led JNUSU of 2004-05, which led a movement which forced the Administration to agree to the demand. The present AISA-led JNUSU submitted a detailed proposal regarding the modalities of such representation, and most of the recommendations were passed by the JNUs Academic Council and Executive Council. Now, ratification by the HRD and the Visitor to the University (President of India) is pending. .
Extension of MCM Facilities, Increase of MCM amount, and Financial Assistance to Needy Students: In its Charter of Demands, the JNUSU had demanded scholarships for needy M Phil students, and an increase in the amount of the MCM scholarship. .
Due to persistent pursual by the present JNUSU, the MCM amount for BA students has been increased to the level of MA students. In the Academic Council Meeting of March 31, the present JNUSU ensured that the MCM was extended to MPhil/MTech/MCA students. Also, in the recent round of negotiations of JNUSU with the VC on 23 and 29 September, the Earn While You Learn posts have been extended from 67 to 90 seats. Now we need to take the struggle further to demand further enhancement of MCM to match the mess bill amount, as well as providing other fellowships, stipends, assistantships in Project cells to ensure that needy students do not drop out for lack of financial support. .
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Remedial courses: .
In its Charter, the AISA-led JNUSU had raised the need to make remedial and bridge courses run by JNU more effective by providing more technical expertise to the teachers and offering certificates to motivate students to join these courses. .
During negotiations with the JNUSU, the Admin. agreed to issue certificates to students participating in and teaching the course, and the Chief Advisor, Equal Opportunity Office will explore possibilities of providing technical expertise in consultation with teachers to make the remedial and bridge courses effective. .
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New Exam Centres: .
AISA-led JNUSU demanded that new examination centres should be set up in remote areas of India especially in all the capitals of the North-Eastern states; also, in order to promote friendly relations with our neighbouring countries, an examination centre be set up in Islamabad in Pakistan. .
This year 7 new Entrance Exam Centres have been created including Aizawl, Agartala, New Jalpaiguri, Gulbarga, Bareilly and one additional centre each in Patna and Delhi. Administration also agreed in principle for an exam centre in Islamabad subject to Govt. clearance and feasibility. .
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Struggling for the GSCASH and Defending Its Autonomy: .
In 1996, even before the Supreme Court verdict on sexual harassment in the workplace In a bid to cripple the GSCASH and rob it of its gender-sensitive spirit, the JNU Admin. ratified a new set of rules and procedures that are blatantly biased in favour of the accused, reinforce the hierarchies (such as faculty-student power .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2006 ID-16623
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Solidarity With Students and Peoples Movements .
As students, we have the privilege of information, insight, and sensitivity towards the contradictions and struggles in our society. We believe that our involvement cannot remain confined to seminar rooms and classrooms; the students movement must have an integral link with social movements. .
In 2004, the women of Manipur shook the conscience of the nation with their nude protest against the rape and killing of Manorama Devi by Army jawans, and sparked off a mass movement against the draconian killer law AFSPA. Then AISA mobilised the students of JNU in several protests and campaigns in the capital. While the NSUI, ABVP, SFI-AISF stood in support of the AFSPA, the AISA President and the JNUSU President from AISA visited Manipur at the height of the movement. .
When tribals protesting against displacement were gunned down in Kalinganagar on January 2 this year, the AISA-led JNUSU took a team of students to visit the struggling tribals. When people of the Narmada Bachao Andolan came on the streets of Delhi last summer, in protest against the UPA Govt.s decision to raise the height of the dam and drown out the land and livelihood of thousands, AISA stood by them shoulder to shoulder. The President of the AISA-led JNUSU, Mona Das, and Awadhesh Tripathi from AISA sat on a week-long hunger strike in support of the NBA agitation, and AISA activists also visited the Narmada Valley to participate in the NBAs Pol-Khol Yatra. .
The AISA-led JNUSU responded promptly to the tsunami tragedy, organising massive collection drives in which the .
entire JNU student community participated. AISA also sent a relief team to the affected areas of Nagapattinam. The AISA-led JNUSU joined the massive movement of the students of Jadavpur University against the police crackdown on a peaceful hunger strike (while the SFI peddled the lie that it was students, not police, who had indulged in brutality). To familiarise JNU with the struggles of the tribals against Mining MNCs, starvation and state repression in the Kashipur-Koraput-Kalahandi zone of Orissa, AISA councillors from SSS organised an exposure trip of students to the area in the saummer vacation of 2005. .
The JNUSU President was among the first to visit the Honda workers in Gurgaon, the very night after their brutalisation by the Haryana Police. The AISA-led JNUSU actively participated in the workers struggle including the Haryana Bandh. The AISA-led JNUSU played a leading role in solidarity with the struggle of Jamia students this semester. .
.
Student Representation to AC, BoS: .
The demand for restoration of elected representation to the AC and Board of Studies was a long-standing one. It was the AISA-led JNUSU of 2004-05, which led a movement which forced the Administration to agree to the demand. The present AISA-led JNUSU submitted a detailed proposal regarding the modalities of such representation, and most of the recommendations were passed by the JNUs Academic Council and Executive Council. Now, ratification by the HRD and the Visitor to the University (President of India) is pending. .
Extension of MCM Facilities, Increase of MCM amount, and Financial Assistance to Needy Students: In its Charter of Demands, the JNUSU had demanded scholarships for needy M Phil students, and an increase in the amount of the MCM scholarship. .
Due to persistent pursual by the present JNUSU, the MCM amount for BA students has been increased to the level of MA students. In the Academic Council Meeting of March 31, the present JNUSU ensured that the MCM was extended to MPhil/MTech/MCA students. Also, in the recent round of negotiations of JNUSU with the VC on 23 and 29 September, the Earn While You Learn posts have been extended from 67 to 90 seats. Now we need to take the struggle further to demand further enhancement of MCM to match the mess bill amount, as well as providing other fellowships, stipends, assistantships in Project cells to ensure that needy students do not drop out for lack of financial support. .
.
Remedial courses: .
In its Charter, the AISA-led JNUSU had raised the need to make remedial and bridge courses run by JNU more effective by providing more technical expertise to the teachers and offering certificates to motivate students to join these courses. .
During negotiations with the JNUSU, the Admin. agreed to issue certificates to students participating in and teaching the course, and the Chief Advisor, Equal Opportunity Office will explore possibilities of providing technical expertise in consultation with teachers to make the remedial and bridge courses effective. .
.
New Exam Centres: .
AISA-led JNUSU demanded that new examination centres should be set up in remote areas of India especially in all the capitals of the North-Eastern states; also, in order to promote friendly relations with our neighbouring countries, an examination centre be set up in Islamabad in Pakistan. .
This year 7 new Entrance Exam Centres have been created including Aizawl, Agartala, New Jalpaiguri, Gulbarga, Bareilly and one additional centre each in Patna and Delhi. Administration also agreed in principle for an exam centre in Islamabad subject to Govt. clearance and feasibility. .
.
Struggling for the GSCASH and Defending Its Autonomy: .
In 1996, even before the Supreme Court verdict on sexual harassment in the workplace In a bid to cripple the GSCASH and rob it of its gender-sensitive spirit, the JNU Admin. ratified a new set of rules and procedures that are blatantly biased in favour of the accused, reinforce the hierarchies (such as faculty-student power .
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