PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2013 ID-36108

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· The path-breaking step of setting up the JNU Press has been initiated, and the JNUSU representatives in the.

Library Committee have ensured transparency, accountability and democratic functioning during the entire.

process..

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· Remote access to the Central Library's database has been introduced, whereby any JNU student can.

access the JNU library resources from any part of the world. Library infrastructure including computer,.

software, and reading room facilities has also been upgraded considerably. Library Convenor also.

alertly protested against undue surveillance..

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· The UGC's attempts to curtail JRF fellowships in the name of "fund cuts" and to curtail reservation in JRF.

through was resisted..

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· A protracted struggle to double the MCM amount and to extend the time period of the UGC fellowships.

forced a highly reluctant JNU administration to enhance the MCM to Rs 2000 and to create a corpus fund for.

research scholars during 4th and 5th year. This struggle to double the MCM amount however continues, and.

has to be taken to its logical conclusion..

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· After protracted struggles, SPS dorm facilities for 150 students with mess facilities for Rs 1965 was.

ensured. We must struggle for immediate construction of hostels proposed under 12th Plan to resolve the.

huge crisis of hostel accommodation for all outstation students. Delay in fund allocation and administrative.

red-tapism will not be tolerated, and alternative accommodation must be ensured in the interim period..

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· Administrative attempts to curtail photocopying in JNU were successfully resisted, thus defending students'.

inalienable right to research material..

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· New courses were introduced in SIS and SSS (along with optionals for SL), a separate centre for.

Korean language was started along with its long awaited M.Phil.programme.

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· The admission procedures for PH students were made convenient..

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· The struggle for workers' rights ensured that several anomalies and violations were stalled, administration.

was forced to set up 6 committees to monitor any violation of workers' rights, thus ensuring that the.

responsibility of JNU as an institution is squarely fixed..

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· JNUSU office bearers from AISA joined the struggle against FYUP in DU, and JNUSU must continue to do.

so since JNU students too are affected by FYUP which erodes job prospects for research scholars. The.

JNUSU must also struggle to reverse UGC decision to exclude foreign languages as subject papers in.

the UPSC Exam..

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However, the JNUSU's functioning remained handicapped by certain factors. The outgoing JNUSU.

President and his organisation the DSF owe answers to the student community on certain crucial silences and.

betrayals on crucial issues of democracy and social inclusion, including the one on Hem Mishra posed at the.

beginning of this leaflet..

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On JNUSU Functioning.

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· Why did the JNUSU President and councillors from DSF refuse to endorse a JNUSU resolution.

condemning ABVP's blatant act of violence, threatening women activists with rape, and communal.

targeting and false framing of the JNUSU General Secretary? This was a clear misuse of the JNUSU.

President's position to stop JNUSU from taking a stance against ABVP's violence, unprecedented in JNUSU's.

history. Was this a DSF's much-touted model of `principled non-sectarian left unity' in running JNUSU?.

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· Why did the outgoing JNUSU President, deliberately make it impossible for the Union as an.

institution to take up the crucial legal battle on this issue by his inconsistent and contradictory.

communication with the lawyer? Is it not interesting that DSF's ideological mentors in the JNU faculty too.

openly in writing opposed reduction in viva weightage? This concern was raised in the School Convenors'.

reports and endorsed by School GBMs - yet DSF has remained completely silent on this issue till date.The.

viva struggle requires a firm ideological commitment of the entire JNUSU as an institution and the capacity to.

engage in the legal case with consistency and coherence: only AISA in JNU has shown consistency and will.

on such issues including OBC reservation, deprivation points, and recognition for madarsa certificates..

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· DSF's candidates for Central Panel include its former School Councillors who were nominated by the JNUSU.

President as representatives to the EOO and Placement Cell: why did these representatives never show up.

for the job? Isn't it a fact that during the admission process, the EOO had no option but to contact the JNUSU.

Joint Secretary, who then worked as the JNUSU representative in the EOO? And that the Chairperson of.

the Placement Cell had to contact other Office bearers for new names of student representatives, after which.

SIS, SSS and SLL&CS Convenors (from AISA) were incorporated into the body? Isn't it the case that it.

was only thanks to these AISA Convenors that the Placement Cell began to have proper meetings and.

JNUSU organized an Open House to put together inputs for its proper functioning? Again, this is a specific.

point on which DSF has remained completely silent! (Today those very Councillors who remained.

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