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SBI, JNU branch forthe convenience ofJNU students. the library facilities. procurement of new books and better utilization of library funds has to be evolved. The under-utilisedCurrently. the disbursal mechanism of all the fellowships and .

~!hfloor ofthe library can be converted into an additional cyberscholarships has several problems causing inordinate delay .

library/reference section..

and massive hardships. Students do not deserve to suffer .

because ofbureaucratic red-tapism, administrative insensitivity Recruitment of Teachers: For a long time now, the entire JNU community has been demanding quick recruitment.

and inefficiency. A corpus fund must be created by the university forthe purpose ofdoing away with the inordinate teachers and staff. keeping in mind legally mandated reservationsfor SC/ST/OBC/PH candidates. However, the JNU.

delays in disbursal. .

administration has been dilly-dallying on this demand. As a.

Proactive steps towards alleviating educational .

result the academics of the university have been suffering. Thisdeprivation of minorities delineated by several expert .

situation cannot be allowed to continue any longer..

committees should be initiated by JNU. .

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Health Centre and 24x7 Health Care Facilities:After a.

GSCASH and EOO: GSCASH has always received support long protest and hunger strike, the JNU administration hadfrom JNUSU in all its endeavors. Currently, the paucity offunds, procured a proper 24x7 ambulance. However, the health facilities staffas well as volunteers is inhibiting the effectivityof GSCASH. .

continue to be abysmal, and the committee (under the.

In the days to come, JNUSU will have to work along with GSCASH chairpersonship of the then Assistant Dean of Students) is yetto address these issues. GSCASH needs basic infrastructure to submit its recommendations and act on them. The healthlike its own Xerox machine. So as to evolve an institutionalized .

care facilities in JNU have to be upgraded on a priority basismethod to ensure basic gender sensitization among new and .

with provisions of basic diagnostic facilities, anti-venomcontinuing students, the Academic Council should form .

injections and other services. JNU should also make.

guidelines to incorporate gendersensitlsation as a mandatory arrangements with adjacent hospitals and nursing homes to.

lecture series/ programme to be conducted through each .

provide facilities to JNU students at concessional rates..

centre in the first semester itself. Similarly, the EOO office Extension of Timings of the Railway Reservation.

has to be revitalized so that it can act strongly upon any instance Counter In JNU from 8 am onwards, so that students can.

of discrimination or violence based on caste or religion. .

avail Tatka/facility in the campus..

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Overall Campus Security: In light of several incidents of harassment and molestation (especially by outsiders), the Internet access: Wi-fi internet access in the hostels should overall security mechanism in the campus has to be overhauled. be provided. Right now, students are forced to arrange for their own internet connections, and in many cases this is creating a.

Round-the-clock security has to be provided at vulnerable points, like 24X7 dhaba and on the lonely strip from Brahmaputra hostel vanety of problems. -to the Ad Block bus stop. Moreover. the communication system Transport facilities: The frequency of the DTC buses in between guards often is completely non-functional. GSCASH ..INU (61 5) should be increased. Feeder buses to the nearest .

representation should be ensured in the campus security Metro statio1l, and bus facilities connecting important libraries committee. 1n the city should be provided as was prevalent in JNU. .

Issues of Infrastructure and Facilities A Cultural centre and Auditorium for students' .

JNU Press: In view ofJNU's national and international repute, activities must be built and existing premises like KC OAT it is imperative that JNU adopts a proactive policy and starts and PSR must be renovated. The huge fee of the newly publishing the quality research of its own student scholars and constructed Convention Centre must be reduced to make it faculty for wider dissemination under its own emblem. This wrll Pasily affordable to the students as well. not only make many of our important research contributions. .

Sports facilities in the campus also needs to engaged with hitherto under publicized, easily accessible but will also act as and improved..

a stimulating intellectual incentive to students and faculty alike .

Reforestation and Revitalization ofthe Environment.

in all future research endeavors. .

Task Force:The fragile bio-diversity ofJNU has been severely Construction of Hostels and Democratizing Hostel stressed by the construction work and expansion happening in Allotment Rules: A severe hostel crisis continues in JNU JNU. Therefore, there is an urgent need to revitalize the ETF and even now, several students have not been allotted hostels. ctnd embark on a university-wide reforestation scheme so that Therefore, the construction of new hostels should be taken up tile various species (like the nilga1) living in JNU are not on a priority basis. The dubious policy adopted during the tenure endangered. of the previous DoS about segregation of single and double-.

There are other important issues pertaining to Campus.

seater hostels and creating centralised pool of single-seaters Democracy and several School level concerns, which will bemust be reversed.Also the red-tapism inyoked in hostel change .

detailed in subseauent leaflets and in AISA's manifesto for.

must be removed. The centralized pooling system should be JNUSU elections 2012. which we will release soon..

done away with, so that students can getthe hostel oftheir choice. .

In the coming days, we appeal to the student community to.

Improved Library Facilities: In 2007-08, the JNUSU had .

elect a JNUSU that is committed to a vision for a more.

highlighted the massive corruption and deficiencies in the .

democratic, socially inclusive campus and society;.

management of library facilities-as a result the Chief Librarian .

determined to strengthen the struggle forstudents' rights and.

was suspended on corruption charges, and more student .

facilities, greaterparticipation in decision-making.