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0J'}t:"tOSe lyngdoh, Resist Privatization, Defend Campus Democracy .
I am ;__ hzdbe~h Maryam, contesting for the post of SSS councilor in the upcoming JNUSU elections. When I came to JNU las~ \ ..:;;~r H\2rwv t:1mgs in the campus really struck me. The political vibrancy of the campus, the late night public meetings ~~-(-' r'{!)ata·! ...Jnd discussions seemed really intellectually and politically liberating. People here speak openly about .
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-4~t;alL and discuss them, girl students' move around the campus till late at night and politics is not a .
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~erer\HS "'13S '>OrT'ethmg unthinkable in my previous university and definitely back home in Kashmir. In first few months .
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In JN. lt 1 Wns Vllhless to students struggle against Lyngdoh and increasingly became aware of the intense debate, various .
emot10 1al and political responses that it evoked surrounding JNUSU election, JNUSU constitution etc. I did not know JNU by-tha uml-'! i~1 1t~ antirety, but I definitely knew about LCR. 1 had already seen how the democratic rights of students in my vL~ uruversoty have been severely restricted by Lyngdoh. The union there is a puppet in the hands of the .
V''ith instances like cancellation of nomination of elected union President by the administration via.
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GrieVdfl('·':\ Redressal Cell and with repressive clauses of LCR. Lyngdoh neither curtailed rampant criminalization of.
adml' ~tatKt politic~ tl,f'rP 1"\or could it stop the use of money and muscle power. But it definitely curbed down on the rights of students .
'1~ rg1t t1 contest, expressing political opinion and deliberation. When I came to the campus, JNU seemed to be .
--~~ a different future of campus democracy with students resolved to fight Lyngdoh uncompromisingly..
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tJok r '"Otest march to Supreme Court, held meetings with the determination to bring back the _JNUSU .
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t-h'v'eve~. c;oon the struggle which could have been a hope for students across the country started to fizzle .
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out a"' i Jr~JEmrz~tions like SFI-AISA started to speak a language of compromise. There were so much deceit and lies. I .~ .
felt Sl. .·· :rtiJe:J ·),, the day of the first UGBM when these organizations simply walked off from the venue showing how .
hundr -~ < sruLents present there don't even matter to them. Since then it has only been a tale of compromise. I have .
oppost:- tnP !..yngdoh recommendations even before 1 came to JNU and I will not tolerate the same in JNU too. This .
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:~:; oeer· hard earned by students, who fought before us to make it what it is today. And Lyngdoh will only destroy .
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it. Anr ~~rtd 1ly I am not the only one with many of you still being firm against the imposition of Lyngdoh in this campus. .
,_ rgar:izations are, however also saying that they will fight Lyngdoh if they come to JNUSU. But can we trust .
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a· ~e believe in their pre-electoral lip services now, when they have so badly surrendered our united battle .
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against ... y1gdoh? It's students like us who fought so far, must re-unite to fight Lyngdoh till the very end. .
I comP 'rr:.rrt a place where democracy has been reduced to rude joke. In Kashmir our democratic rights are strangulated .
Right to debate, or free speech is a far-away dream in universities like Kashmir University. Students .
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there ar~:. ·rot ~ven allowed to utter a single word on the day to day repression that our people are subject to. When 1came to JNU ,..., 0n~ s· ; emester itself there were so many meetings on Kashmir held by different organizations. People debated .
rr-'"!" zo rnany perspectives. But Lyngdoh clearly says students should be ''nationalist and integrationisf'. So are the iss ' .. '~~J.;posed to discuss a::d debate issues like the nationality movement in Ke::shmir and North-east onlyfrom .
we he'"' -~. t: arrple of school of social sciences. With quite a few centers of excellence, we are supposed to be in the .
forefront of guiding the future of socially relevant, critical knowledge productjon. But what we have is deeply elitist, .
chauvin1S1t environment where if you cannot speak fluent English, you are tacitly discouraged by the institutjon to leave. .
a! .,lasses to be held in due interval are of very little use, as it is becoming sporadic and irregular with lack of The ren,~dt.
~ tne authority's part. We have our center's libraries but again it is just a show with most of the times we have to .
intent frorvPlt=want books in other places. One often wonders if we can have expensive decoratjons of the class rooms, hunt fo" ' .
ACs, pro1e l tors why can't we have an electronically catalogued fully functioning library in respective centers as well. I have al~c 'l8ard so much about JNU's radical, progressive intellectualism. But my friends from North East or friends from . other de,.J·.Jen background lament about lack of opportunities to push through their original researches regarding these ;t~es ,,ke caste, nationality questions or marginalization of minority communities. I have wondered, how come .
SSS d.;.; r~,,e t dving so much funds coming from all around the globes, could not encourage its own students to work oncdticaf ·'>-.
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Perhap>;. ~~~!r(.a 1s little left to wonder but to accept reality as it is. Just like higher education in other campuses, in JNU funding '=.:S"Jec1ally by private players have its politics too. Lack of infrastructure, lack of funds, inadequate libraries are not merb ~veryday problems. They are just the beginning of a fight by us which must reach a stage to fight privatization,.
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exclusion ,,, higher education. T his brings you and me straight to Lyngdoh. Lyngdoh is here precisely to oversee the fact .
nS st1 uggle never reaches that higher level of resistance starting from their immediate need. Therefore it is .
that studt ''s time. It is your fight, my .~t we don't resign from the struggle against Lyngdoh with JNUSU coming in week.
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fight anc 1 orn committed to this struggle. Thereby I seek you_r s~pport in strengthening our struggle in days to come .
against LF ,\lriOh and threats that it poses to our educational instttut1on. .
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Youth For Equality .
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23 .10.08.
Wky Y111111l F11r Egu111itr Is 111.11 need111 the l111ur .
1came, I saw, I conqueredAccording to Plutarch, the words by which Julius Caesar succinctly describe'~ .
ofhis victories. When a normal student enters JNU he/she feel that he/she has conquered a war. Within no time they .
started feel: I came, I saw and am now frustrated! Why-The Scene 1: A young, anxious, curious and promising fresher entered into the portals ofthe prestigious Jawaharlal .
Nehru University. After a harried journey and ride to the campus, the winding and gradually undulating roads, the verdant greenery and the impressive Ad Block building are a soothing balm on his/her frayed nerves. One look at the statue ofour first PM, standing tall and elegant next to .the Ad Block and the entrant cant help but feel proud ofhis/her stars, to have made it here. The Scene 2: The admission process begins. The fresher is handed a sheafoffolios and asked to fill them out. "What 'all ofthese", slhe asks in sheer bewilderment. "These are meant to "facilitate" your admission procedure". The tenn l .
facility seems to have a different meaning in JNU; its synonyms could be cumbersome, tedious and unnecessarily taxing. Iffilling out the zillion documents was not enough, then throw in rurtt1ing from pillar-to-post for hostel allotment, ifyou were lucky enough to get one at all. As slhe wakes up to these facts ofthe administration, the now .
not-so-enthusiastic student is left thinking, " Is this the JNU of my Dreams?'' .
E-governance: The Solution to These problems .
Lets re-imagine the aforementioned situation, albeit in a novel way. .
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The student com.es to JNU and reaches the ad-block. Instead of having a barrage of paperwork hurled onto him/her,.
" they are greeted by a single-window system of admission; they start with feeding in their registration number into a .
computer terminal, which tells them their rank ·within the center, for the course that they haye ap!lli,ed.J or. Candi9ates . :---..i.
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who have made it to multiple courses are informed ofall their options and asked to choose likewise. the .
Having made up his/her mind, the student is now asked to fill out a SINGLE prototype of the folio, online. A .
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facsimile ofthis docwnent is dispatched to all the offices where it is required, also online. Any mistakes in filling out the form will be highlighted by the computer and the candidate will be prompted to rectify them, then and there. fy et.
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For fee deposition, the candidates will have to carry a DO ofthe requisite amount with them and simply fill up ~.
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the draft no. as and when prompted by the computer; no hassle of waiting in long queues for balance. Online bank .
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services will be provided, in case one does not have a draft. :pea, .
This being done, the page would change to the hostel allotment procedure. Since the details are already with .
}no41 the administration, the hostel availability status, in view ofthe rank and seniority ofthe candidate, will be displayed on J gfit, the screen. The candidates will be told ofthe dates when the hostel allotment starts and the allotment procedure will be 5 'tdlb 19.
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As the day ends, the student returns to his/her abode, relaxed and unruffled. As he thinks about the great·ease aJaJu .
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with which he spent his day, so productively, he can't help but think, "This is the JNU of my dreams".Youth For .
UU1!:11Equality is committed to the e-govem ance and once it win the JNUSU election, the first thing after the scholarship seq issue will be that ofe-govemance as described above. Only student support is required to convert this archaic system n AQ into a modem one. Lets join hand to make this university modem and student friendly. :I!J\!0 S! U.
Youth for Equality invites all for a Public Talk on :Reservation Vzs-a-vis Equal Opportunity .
Toni2ht 23rd October, 9:30PM Mahi-Mandavi Mess fMI GUESTSPEAKERS l4J.
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President : Vikram Singh .
Shri SharadAnantrao J'oshi: Member of Parliament.
Vtee President: Bru1zdabana Mishra 10 .
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Gen. Secretary : AmitRanjan Joint. Secretary : RaghibAkhtar ~l .
Prof. Makhan Lal: Distinguished Historian, 0.
CouncUlors .....-Pankaj, Pranav, Pratyush, Md. Mohtashint Former Director, Institute ofArchaeology, Delhi. .
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SSS -Vinod Kumar .
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Prof. P. V. lndiresan: Eminent Scholar,.
SIT -ArvindSingh Mer .
Fonner Director, liT Madras..
SBT -Shivendra Kumar .
SLS: -Vibhor, Goutam, Preksha .
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Hasan MohammadManish Misbra .
YFE RepresentativeChief Campaign Coordinator, YFE.
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