PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23407
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Fees Hike At No Cost! MHRD and Their Cronies On Campus Get Lost! .
AISA congratulates the student community for the massive participation in JNUSU's call for a protest march to the MHRD against the latest MHRD circular dated Sep 12 -a circular which is essentially a blueprint for converting university spaces into exclusive enclaves of the rich and the privileged. In the midst of tremendous academic pressure, students boycotted not just their classes but also their exams in protest against the World Bank-IMF dictated agenda of fee hikes, levying of user charges for basic facilities and withdrawal of hostel subsidies. The large student mobilisation at the protest march was a fitting rebuff to all those forces in this campus who have been working overtime to try to diffuse the mass anger against such assaults on the basic idea of an inclusive university which will always keep its doors open to students from all social and economic backgrounds. .
This campus has seen an intense mobilisation against the MHRD circular over the past two weeks. Worried by the massive and spirited mobilisation of students for JNUSU's Fees Hike Roko Juloos, the YFE and NSUI were finally goaded into breaking their silence on the MHRD circular. On the eve of the protest march to the MHRD, NSUI, sensing that there would be an unprecedented mobilisation of students from JNU, Jamia and DU against the polices of their masters in the UPA, predictably came up with a laughable attempt to diffuse the mobilisation and confuse the student community. According to the NSUI, the rector has "assured" them that the MHRD circular will never be implemented in JNU, given the socially-inclusive character of the university. The NSUI then goes on to piously inform the student community that they are against such "anti-student" and "anti-education" policies prescribed by the MHRD. We would like to inform the NSUI: it is their own masters in the UPA government who are implementing these anti-poor, anti-student policies in the name of "austerity"! The student community, unfortunately for the NSUI, does not suffer from selective amnesia. We are well aware that the NSUI is the student wing of the Congress, and that the main work of the NSUI is to try and generate support for the Congress's neo-liberal regime which is wrecking havoc on millions of workers, tribals and students all over the country. .
The NSUI, true to its job of playing the agent of the UPA in the campus, also claims that the MHRD circular is a routine affair, and the proposals are "advisory" rather than a directive. We would like to inform the NSUI, that much as they would like to hide the real nature of the MHRD circular, the recommendations are there for everyone to see. Let us take another look at the following line of the MHRD circular: .
It is reiterated once again that these economy instructions are mandatory in nature and no relaxation would be possible (page 3 of the MHRD circular) .
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Is the NSUI seriously trying to tell us that words like "mandatory" and "no relaxation is possible" are merely "advisory"? Will NSUI kindly explain why their own UPA, whose trumpet they are so fond of blowing in this campus, is prone to sending such "anti-student", anti-education" advisories on a regular basis? .
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Will the NSUI care to clarify: if they indeed think that the MHRD circular is anti-student, then are they ready to ask their godfathers in the MHRD to immediately take back the Sep 12 circular? .
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At any rate, their own beloved Yuvaraj stated in JNU that 20% of a university's expenditure should come from students. Will the NSUI care to clarify their stand on this? If they are indeed in favour of students funding 20% of the university's expenses, will they explain how this can be achieved WITHOUT these "anti-student", "anti-education" policies mentioned in the MHRD circular? .
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The NSUI, after holding forth for a long paragraph in its pamphlet on how the JNU administration is "corrupt", "Stalinist" and prone to unnecessary expenditure at the cost of basic needs of the JNU community, suddenly develops a touching confidence in the administration's integrity in the very next paragraph. For the NSUI therefore, a mere "reassurance" from the Rector that the administration is not planning to implement the MHRD circular's recommendation is sufficient to set their minds at rest. We would like to inform the NSUI, that JNU's student community understands your politics of playing the loyal agent of the JNU administration and the UPA, and will never fall for your attempts to derail a movement for basic student rights. .
If the NSUI predictably tried to sabotage the mobilisation for the protest march to the MHRD, the YFE also predictably brought out the only kind of pamphlet they are capable of: viciously casteist, anti-poor, and anti-student. True to their hierarchical brahminical ideology, the YFE has insulted even the legacy of Comrades Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaqullah, and Chandershekhar Azad by deliberately using the surnames of these .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2009 ID-23407
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Fees Hike At No Cost! MHRD and Their Cronies On Campus Get Lost! .
AISA congratulates the student community for the massive participation in JNUSU's call for a protest march to the MHRD against the latest MHRD circular dated Sep 12 -a circular which is essentially a blueprint for converting university spaces into exclusive enclaves of the rich and the privileged. In the midst of tremendous academic pressure, students boycotted not just their classes but also their exams in protest against the World Bank-IMF dictated agenda of fee hikes, levying of user charges for basic facilities and withdrawal of hostel subsidies. The large student mobilisation at the protest march was a fitting rebuff to all those forces in this campus who have been working overtime to try to diffuse the mass anger against such assaults on the basic idea of an inclusive university which will always keep its doors open to students from all social and economic backgrounds. .
This campus has seen an intense mobilisation against the MHRD circular over the past two weeks. Worried by the massive and spirited mobilisation of students for JNUSU's Fees Hike Roko Juloos, the YFE and NSUI were finally goaded into breaking their silence on the MHRD circular. On the eve of the protest march to the MHRD, NSUI, sensing that there would be an unprecedented mobilisation of students from JNU, Jamia and DU against the polices of their masters in the UPA, predictably came up with a laughable attempt to diffuse the mobilisation and confuse the student community. According to the NSUI, the rector has "assured" them that the MHRD circular will never be implemented in JNU, given the socially-inclusive character of the university. The NSUI then goes on to piously inform the student community that they are against such "anti-student" and "anti-education" policies prescribed by the MHRD. We would like to inform the NSUI: it is their own masters in the UPA government who are implementing these anti-poor, anti-student policies in the name of "austerity"! The student community, unfortunately for the NSUI, does not suffer from selective amnesia. We are well aware that the NSUI is the student wing of the Congress, and that the main work of the NSUI is to try and generate support for the Congress's neo-liberal regime which is wrecking havoc on millions of workers, tribals and students all over the country. .
The NSUI, true to its job of playing the agent of the UPA in the campus, also claims that the MHRD circular is a routine affair, and the proposals are "advisory" rather than a directive. We would like to inform the NSUI, that much as they would like to hide the real nature of the MHRD circular, the recommendations are there for everyone to see. Let us take another look at the following line of the MHRD circular: .
It is reiterated once again that these economy instructions are mandatory in nature and no relaxation would be possible (page 3 of the MHRD circular) .
.
Is the NSUI seriously trying to tell us that words like "mandatory" and "no relaxation is possible" are merely "advisory"? Will NSUI kindly explain why their own UPA, whose trumpet they are so fond of blowing in this campus, is prone to sending such "anti-student", anti-education" advisories on a regular basis? .
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Will the NSUI care to clarify: if they indeed think that the MHRD circular is anti-student, then are they ready to ask their godfathers in the MHRD to immediately take back the Sep 12 circular? .
.
.
At any rate, their own beloved Yuvaraj stated in JNU that 20% of a university's expenditure should come from students. Will the NSUI care to clarify their stand on this? If they are indeed in favour of students funding 20% of the university's expenses, will they explain how this can be achieved WITHOUT these "anti-student", "anti-education" policies mentioned in the MHRD circular? .
.
.
The NSUI, after holding forth for a long paragraph in its pamphlet on how the JNU administration is "corrupt", "Stalinist" and prone to unnecessary expenditure at the cost of basic needs of the JNU community, suddenly develops a touching confidence in the administration's integrity in the very next paragraph. For the NSUI therefore, a mere "reassurance" from the Rector that the administration is not planning to implement the MHRD circular's recommendation is sufficient to set their minds at rest. We would like to inform the NSUI, that JNU's student community understands your politics of playing the loyal agent of the JNU administration and the UPA, and will never fall for your attempts to derail a movement for basic student rights. .
If the NSUI predictably tried to sabotage the mobilisation for the protest march to the MHRD, the YFE also predictably brought out the only kind of pamphlet they are capable of: viciously casteist, anti-poor, and anti-student. True to their hierarchical brahminical ideology, the YFE has insulted even the legacy of Comrades Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaqullah, and Chandershekhar Azad by deliberately using the surnames of these .
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