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JAWAHIRlll NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION 30.3.05 .

Friends, A Meeting of the Academic Council of the University is due to be held tomorrow. At this meeting, several very important issues, which relate to students' demands are to be discussed. Student Representation in the Academic Council, Board of Studies and Special Committees: .

After the JNUSU's agitation and hunger strike last year, the Administration had appointed the Namwar Singh Committee to recommend modalities to restore student elections to the Academic decision making bodies of the University. The Students Union in ameeting with the Committee on 17" Nov.2004 gave out adetailed proposal for student representation in these bodies. .

After consultations with various sections in the University, this Committee has put forward its recommendations,which are to be discussed in the AC meeting tomorrow. .

~ The JNUSU welcomes the fact that the Committee has recommended student representation through direct elections to the various Academic bodies of the University. However,where the JNUSU had demanded atotal ofseventeen elected representatives, the Committee has recommended that there be seven elected student representatives to the AC. While we welcome this as a beginning, we would like to point out that only one representative has been recommended for all the Science Schools together.We feel that Science Schools need more representation,and we also feel that in keeping with the spirit ofstudents' democratic representation, there must be provision for revising and expanding the number of student representatives as the strength of Schools/ Programmes grow in the future. .

-.., ~The Committee has recommended that no JNUSU representative will be an ex officio memberof any academic body-be it AC, BoS or Special 1 I Committees.The JNUSU is of the opinion that the observer status of JNUSU in all these bodies must be retained.JNUSU as an institution has a continuity in representing students' interests in a responsible manner. It also has accountability to the wider student community.JNUSU representatives.

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have always used their observer status to enrich the proceedings of these bodies. Their continuity and experience is all the more significant and .

necessary,given the fact that the Committee has debarred students from re-election to Academic bodies. .

~ Further, if students are debarred from re-election, they have only one term in which to familiarisethemselves \vith the proceedings and play aconstructive role in the Academic Bodies.Therefore the JNUSU feels that students should be allowed to seek re-election to Academic Bodies-this can only enrich the quality of student participation in these bodies.As for the concern that participation in Academic bodies should not be restricted to afew students: the fact is that the student community is well capable ofensuring this,and of decidingWho ~s the moresuitable candidate. .

In fact. students' democratic right to re-elect acandidate or vote for a new oneshould not be restricted by anadministrative ban onre-election. .

, ~The Committe has also recommended four student representativesin BaS in Schoolof languagesthe brea.'< -up beingonefor B.A., one for MA and two for MPhiU Ph.D. JNUSU is of the opinionthat thenumber of student representatives from B.A.shouldbe increased to 2 and those at MPhii!Ph Dlevel be reduced to one in order to make it proportional to the strength of students in each programme. .

Resist Abolitjon of Code II Admission to BA 1st year-The Committee for ReviewofAdmiss!on Policy and PiOcedure has recommended the abofrtion ofCode II Admission to BA 1st year programme(i.etheprovision for 20% seats for graduate/post-graduate students). TheJNUSU strongly objects to this proposal, and will resist it accordingly in theAC Meeting. since this piocedure has maintained a good balance in terms of number of students joining at +21evel as well as those after graduate level and post~graduate level this systen~st.ould be continued. AUniversity should not be rigid in its academicprogrammes;in order to retain the real sp.rit ofuniversity education,the University must be ileXJble enough to allowstudentsfrom other streams topursue anychangein interests. .

Resist Abolition of Admissions to lind year of aA Hons. prog in IJ"d year: The Com111ittee has argued thatrelatively very few st\!Gents apply for admission in the lind year level. This is contrary to the facts. Forinstance, in ArabicfPersian, the number of students whojoin at the Jlrd year level is very high.The JNUSU will resist this proposal strongly, and will demand that the provision ofAdmission at the lind year SA level be retail1ed. .

SC/ST PH Quota in Direct PhD: The JNUSU welcomes application of SC/ST PH quota in the direct PhD programme but is apprehensive of the actual implementation in cases of Centerswhich have fewer number of seats, as direct PhD comprises only twenty percent of intake capacity. .

Programme of North-East Studies:The JNUSUhad demanded that aNorth-East studies programme be introduced in SSS with aprimary focus on the socio-political problems_of thepeople of North-Eastern states.The AC meeting tomorrow will discuss proposals for introduction ofaNorth East lndla Studies programme put forward by SSS as well as by SLL& CS. Wo welcome these proposals as a good b~ginning-and we recommend that such .

programmes can be introduced in both SSS and SLL&CS, which can cover different aspects of North-Ea-st Studies. Such programmes can be astep toYJares estabfishing aCentre ofNorth-East India Studies. .

JNUSU also reiterates its demand for aProgramme of Studies in Discrimination and Exclusion as proposed in the Xth Plan,which wm also indL-de the study of Dalit and Dravidian culture. .

New Examination Centers:The JNUSU welcomesthe fact that JNUSU's proposal ofseveral new exam centres has been accepted. Wrth these .

new centres, now all North-Eastern Slates will have exam centres at their statecapitals as demanded by theJNUSU. JNUSU had also demanded an .

exam centre in Islamabad,to promote friendly relation with our neighbourPakistan;we reiterate thisdemand. .

Financial assistance: The JNUSU demands that JNU administration take responsibility of providing financial assistance through stipends, fellowships,assistantships in project cells and creating more posts in the Earn While You Learn scheme to needy students especially those at the MPhii-.

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PhDlevel. The drop-out rates of students at all levels is increasingdueto lack of financial support as students areleft with no other option but to take uprt part-time/full-time jobs, giving academics abackseat. We also demand that the Administration enhance the MCM amount forMA students. .

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Maldng remedial and bridge courses effective:JNU has been running remedial and bridge courses but there is aneed to make them effective.

P. by providing necessary technical expertise to the teachers and offering certificates to motivate students to join these courses. JNUSU demands that steps.

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be taken in this direction. .

Amendment in MPhil ordinance: JNUSU demands that M Phil Ordinance be amended so as to allowrepetition of courses by granting an extra semester during the course work,and also so as to allow physically challenged students to register for Ph.D. with aCGPA of 5.5 in MPhil instead of6. .

Long Live Student Struggle ! .

Mona Das . Ena Panda Muqbil Ahmar Sona Mitra .

President, JNUSU Vice-Prtsidcnt, JNUSU General Secretary, JNUSU Joint Secretary, JNUSU .

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