PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2004 ID-38431
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Date: 25-07-04.
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ALL NEEDY STUDENTSII DEMOCRATISE AC, EC AND GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL COMMITTEE!! Over the last few years successive SFI-AISF led JNUSUs have mobilised the student community against the privatisation, Friends, .
commercialisation and communalisation of education and for better facilities. It is because of these united struggles of the student .
messes etc. even at a time when it has been the overall policy of the Government to impose fund cuts on education. The same .
community that the Administration has been forced to accede to our demands for more hostels, computers/Internet non-private .
struggles have built up unique democratic institutions like the Equal Opportunity Office and the GSCASH in our campus. In the last semester too, struggles under the JNUSU banner have successfully raised the Issue of better transport and .
library facilities in our campus. After repeated protests the Administration had to agree to most of our demands on the Library issue .
Including the extension of library timings, better cataloguing and management of language collections and the creation of a book bank facility that would ensure the availability of essential textbooks for all students. As a result of students struggles the Administration was also forced to expel the habitual sexual harasser and communallumpen, Bhaskar Yadav, from the university. However, there are many other issues In the students' charter of demands that are yet to be addressed by the Administration. The .
Rnancll Assistance to All Students: The policies of globalisatlon pursued by successive central governments have led to .
most Important among them are: .
massive fund cuts on higher education. The number of scholarships given by the UGC has decreased drastically because of this .
fund cut. Moreover, there is no respite for the BA or MA students who are not eligible for the JRF. In JNU the MCM scholarships .
have fallen behind the amount of the mess bill and there Is an Irrational disparity in the amounts of the BA and MA MCMs. Due to .
the lack of financial assistance for the students, the academic-,s of JNU is being compromised, with the students spending a major .
part of their time and energy in order to sustain themselves by doing part time jobs or giving tuitions. The students coming from the .
.
deprived sections are even worse of because of the lack of funds and many students are forced to drop their studies. The .
MPhiiiPhd students having no scholarships face the biggest problems. Therefore, to maintain the academic standards as well as .
the democratic character of our university lt Is essential that there be institutional mechanisms for providing financial assistance to .
all needy students. We demand that the Administration accept its responsibility of ensuring that each student of this university have .
adequate financial resources to pursue his/her studies. As a start in this direction the Administration must increase the MCM .
employ more students. At the same time there should be an adequate Increase in the number of scholarships, freeships and part-scholarships to the amount of the mess bill for both BA and MA students and regularise the 'earn while you learn' scheme to time employment within the university in order to meet the need of the entire student community, with particular emphasis on the .
students from socially, economically and regionally deprived sections. The UPA Government at the Centre must be pressurised to .
fulfil the promise made in the CMP for providing more funds for the education sector. .
Immediate Allotment of Lohft-Loni Hostel: With the new students admissions under way and many continuing students not yet .
having been provided accommodation, the problem of hostel accommodation has acguired serious proportions. The Administration is showing a totally callous approach in the case of the allotment of the Lohit-Loni hostels. With the construction of these hostels .
completed, we demand that the Administration must immediately allot these hostels to the students. Instead of doing so, the Administration is trying to shirk off the responsibility by issuing a circular that one-third of the single seaters in existing hostels be converted into double seaters. We totally oppose this move on the part of the Administration and demand an immediate withdrawal .
of this circular.Democr~tlsation of Various Decision Making Bodies: The statutes of our university already include provisions for directly .
elected student representatives in the Academic Council, which is the highest decision-making body of our university. We demand .
that this provision be implemented without further delay. We also demand representation for the student community in other .
Reworking of the Grievance Redressal Mechanism: In the registration process of continuing students in this semester It was.
.
decision-making bodies like the EC and the JNU Court and the revitalisation of SFCs in the different Centres. .
again witnessed how certain teachers and Centres victimized students. In order to provide justice to the students, Grievance .
.
Redressal Committees must be set up in all the schools wit!-) representation of the students to provide redressal of all such .
.
Council has been long delayed. We demand that this be done at the earliest without tampering in any way with the autonomous.
.
academic complaints..
Ratification of the Rules and Procedures of GSCASH: The ratification of the rules and procedures of GSCASH by the Executive .
.
and democratic character of the body. .
.
School Specific Issues: The regular functioning of the Centre-specific libraries of the different Centres of SSS should be ensured .
.
with proper cataloguing. Similarly SIS students must be allowed to issue books from the IDSA library. While the demand of .
.
SLLL&CS for more optional courses have been mel in part after a long struggle culminating in a strike, there is still a need to .
ensure that optional courses are offered by all Centres of SLL&CS as well as by the other major schools. Also, there should be a .
.
mechanism so that students can take optional courses through a centralised body in the School itself instead of running around .
.
from one School to the other. Laboratories in the Science schools must be upgraded and the library must subscribe to more .
.
Other Demands. Apart from these issues the other issues like proper Sports facilities, Transport, Health facilities should also be .
journals. .
.
met by the Administration. .
We demand that the Administration meet these long-standing and pressing demands of the student community without .
demands and we appeal to the student community to remain united under the JNUSU banner in the struggle to ensure more .
further delay. The SFI expresses its full commitment towards any course of action that the JNUSU decides upon to fight for these .
Sd/-facilities and in defence of the democratic character of our university. Parimal MSudhakarSdl-Jyotlnnoy Bhattacharyya .
( .
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2004 ID-38431
.
Date: 25-07-04.
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA .
PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ALL NEEDY STUDENTSII DEMOCRATISE AC, EC AND GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL COMMITTEE!! Over the last few years successive SFI-AISF led JNUSUs have mobilised the student community against the privatisation, Friends, .
commercialisation and communalisation of education and for better facilities. It is because of these united struggles of the student .
messes etc. even at a time when it has been the overall policy of the Government to impose fund cuts on education. The same .
community that the Administration has been forced to accede to our demands for more hostels, computers/Internet non-private .
struggles have built up unique democratic institutions like the Equal Opportunity Office and the GSCASH in our campus. In the last semester too, struggles under the JNUSU banner have successfully raised the Issue of better transport and .
library facilities in our campus. After repeated protests the Administration had to agree to most of our demands on the Library issue .
Including the extension of library timings, better cataloguing and management of language collections and the creation of a book bank facility that would ensure the availability of essential textbooks for all students. As a result of students struggles the Administration was also forced to expel the habitual sexual harasser and communallumpen, Bhaskar Yadav, from the university. However, there are many other issues In the students' charter of demands that are yet to be addressed by the Administration. The .
Rnancll Assistance to All Students: The policies of globalisatlon pursued by successive central governments have led to .
most Important among them are: .
massive fund cuts on higher education. The number of scholarships given by the UGC has decreased drastically because of this .
fund cut. Moreover, there is no respite for the BA or MA students who are not eligible for the JRF. In JNU the MCM scholarships .
have fallen behind the amount of the mess bill and there Is an Irrational disparity in the amounts of the BA and MA MCMs. Due to .
the lack of financial assistance for the students, the academic-,s of JNU is being compromised, with the students spending a major .
part of their time and energy in order to sustain themselves by doing part time jobs or giving tuitions. The students coming from the .
.
deprived sections are even worse of because of the lack of funds and many students are forced to drop their studies. The .
MPhiiiPhd students having no scholarships face the biggest problems. Therefore, to maintain the academic standards as well as .
the democratic character of our university lt Is essential that there be institutional mechanisms for providing financial assistance to .
all needy students. We demand that the Administration accept its responsibility of ensuring that each student of this university have .
adequate financial resources to pursue his/her studies. As a start in this direction the Administration must increase the MCM .
employ more students. At the same time there should be an adequate Increase in the number of scholarships, freeships and part-scholarships to the amount of the mess bill for both BA and MA students and regularise the 'earn while you learn' scheme to time employment within the university in order to meet the need of the entire student community, with particular emphasis on the .
students from socially, economically and regionally deprived sections. The UPA Government at the Centre must be pressurised to .
fulfil the promise made in the CMP for providing more funds for the education sector. .
Immediate Allotment of Lohft-Loni Hostel: With the new students admissions under way and many continuing students not yet .
having been provided accommodation, the problem of hostel accommodation has acguired serious proportions. The Administration is showing a totally callous approach in the case of the allotment of the Lohit-Loni hostels. With the construction of these hostels .
completed, we demand that the Administration must immediately allot these hostels to the students. Instead of doing so, the Administration is trying to shirk off the responsibility by issuing a circular that one-third of the single seaters in existing hostels be converted into double seaters. We totally oppose this move on the part of the Administration and demand an immediate withdrawal .
of this circular.Democr~tlsation of Various Decision Making Bodies: The statutes of our university already include provisions for directly .
elected student representatives in the Academic Council, which is the highest decision-making body of our university. We demand .
that this provision be implemented without further delay. We also demand representation for the student community in other .
Reworking of the Grievance Redressal Mechanism: In the registration process of continuing students in this semester It was.
.
decision-making bodies like the EC and the JNU Court and the revitalisation of SFCs in the different Centres. .
again witnessed how certain teachers and Centres victimized students. In order to provide justice to the students, Grievance .
.
Redressal Committees must be set up in all the schools wit!-) representation of the students to provide redressal of all such .
.
Council has been long delayed. We demand that this be done at the earliest without tampering in any way with the autonomous.
.
academic complaints..
Ratification of the Rules and Procedures of GSCASH: The ratification of the rules and procedures of GSCASH by the Executive .
.
and democratic character of the body. .
.
School Specific Issues: The regular functioning of the Centre-specific libraries of the different Centres of SSS should be ensured .
.
with proper cataloguing. Similarly SIS students must be allowed to issue books from the IDSA library. While the demand of .
.
SLLL&CS for more optional courses have been mel in part after a long struggle culminating in a strike, there is still a need to .
ensure that optional courses are offered by all Centres of SLL&CS as well as by the other major schools. Also, there should be a .
.
mechanism so that students can take optional courses through a centralised body in the School itself instead of running around .
.
from one School to the other. Laboratories in the Science schools must be upgraded and the library must subscribe to more .
.
Other Demands. Apart from these issues the other issues like proper Sports facilities, Transport, Health facilities should also be .
journals. .
.
met by the Administration. .
We demand that the Administration meet these long-standing and pressing demands of the student community without .
demands and we appeal to the student community to remain united under the JNUSU banner in the struggle to ensure more .
further delay. The SFI expresses its full commitment towards any course of action that the JNUSU decides upon to fight for these .
Sd/-facilities and in defence of the democratic character of our university. Parimal MSudhakarSdl-Jyotlnnoy Bhattacharyya .
( .
.