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Fiona, Joe, Siún, Róise and Síofra Conboy pictured at the Taste of Kildare Festival at Naas Racecourse
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Roise certainly trotting in this one. Big question is, am I on the right diagonal - who knows! it's always by chance.
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The pending lists lor OBC.~ ---~--.
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denied admissions must be published immediate~v! Marks for Viva in M.llhil should be reduced to 10% from 30%! .
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Let ns fight the administration in the upcoming Academic Council-meeting! The fresh new list of OBC students who had been illegally denied admission in 2010 academic year in JNU is yet to come. The casteist JNU administration with its lies and false promises is still playing with the future of more than .
three hundred students who should have got admission in this year only. Though instructed by High Court, the JNU .
in the ~ast. The Supreme Court however, did not put any stay which YFE and its stooges in JNU administration wereadministration refused to take out a new list with the excuse of a case filed in Supreme Court by a known YFE stooge so earnestly hoping for. This same administration bypassed most undemocratically, without caring for any democratic .
opinion building, Academic Council's (AC) and Dean's Committee's decision overnight just because a mere legal notice .
was sent by a Y4E lawyer. T: .ay reinstated Aditya Mukhe~ee Committee recommendations of merit cut-off which was .
rejected by AC. This time however the administration is delaying the entire process in the name of endlessly seeking .
opinion of all the Deans. This is a matter which is legally binding on the administration and Deans have nothing to do .
whatsoever with it. The students' delegation comprising all organizations met the administration and repeatedly .
demanded for a new OBC list ac; soon as possible. The double-faced administration agreed on principle. Recently .
.again students' delegation met the administration and demanded the same. However.what they are promising in words .
~"~,r; yet to reflect in practice. The rabidly t;asteist JNU administration has made it quite clear that they are going to name of all sort of opinion seeking is nothing but last ditch effort of the stooges of 'Manu-merit-markef in administration.
adopt all sorts of strategies in order to safeguard the upper caste Brahminical interest. The infinite delay in the .
to sabotage the democratisation of education in JNU. In the mean time some other just demands regarding admission policy in JNU have come up from amongst .
the students. According to a Supreme Court verdict, weightage of only 10% of total marks can be assigned for .
ir.terview in any entrance examination in order to avoid subjective evaluation and discrimination. This rule is followed in .
most other universities like DU, Jamia Milia as well as in other public exams like UPSC and state Civil Services. Hm·.ever in JNU, the proportion of marks for interview is 30%. This paves the way for rampant and repeated .
discrimtnation against students coming from deprived caste/ class background as well as Muslim students, as many R-is nave revealed in the past. Students coming from SC/ST/OBC background in particular have been given marks as c ,; as 1 or 2 and even 0 in interview, despite them scoring quite high in written exam, on a consistent basis,. Along with this shameless flouting of legal provision, JNU administration resorts to the most undemocratic, .
non-transparent method in order to reaJ,ise th~ir casteist-communal agenda by not giving the break up of .
marks. While in DU the marks obtained in interview and written are given alongside the total marks, the JNU .
administration only publishes the total marks obtained in the M.Phil exam. This is noth'ng but a ploy to hide the rabid discriminations that take place around the marking of the viva exams. .
Mere negotiations with administration can not ensure full implementation of 27°/o OBC reservation or reducing -;-~ihe 30% weightage to legally acceptable 10°/o. People have fought feudai/Brahminical ruiing class of India until death to secure social justice in this country. We have no !temative but to resolutely fight the administration and its stooges .
in faculty in order to ensure rts implementation. However AISA and SFI with their politics of opportunism have refused to take this struggle forward. While few organizations, including DSU have proposed again and again for more resolute .
means of struggle including university strike and if needed a 'Chakka Jam', modalities of which could have been .
decided democratically in an AO; both these organizations resorted back to same dilly-caUymg attitude similar to JNU .
administratior.. The crucial AC meeting is going to take place in the montn of November. These important decisions pertaining to pending OBC lists and percentage of weightage given to interview are going to be the part of c: Jenda in that AC meeting. DSU believes that in order to bring out the new list for OBC candidates in this semeste.· at the and to ensure reduction of weightage of viva in the next academic year, a resolute student .
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mobilization must be built from now on infront of the AC. The undemocratic ft.adioning and administration's .
loyalty to their YFE stooges is well known. The administration must be confronted and forced to impiemimt what is · legally binding on them. Any reluctance towards this is nothing but betraying the cause of social justice and .
strengthening the ca3teist brigade on this campus. roised by people's movements from below. and the ruling class had no other option but to recognize this demand for.
The fight for reservation in higher education has never been an easy fight! The demand for reservation was sociaajustice and e~uitable education. However, the implementing authorities in this country are still the same feudal' .
forces .vhich will not like the existing oppressive status quo to be even margin~llv l 'i~iltrN-0. In affect therefore, in z.lso-callf.::d premiere institutions' implementation of 27% OBC reservation has been gossfy scuttled, despite a verdicl from ihe highest court. In all these if'lstitutions what we see is rather a 'reverse reservation' w'here repeated conversior .
of OBC seat~ into general (read upper; caste) seats ha~turned this. category into th&preserve of th& privileged. At th~ it is our responsibility and challenge to ens~.:re the full implementation of OBC reservation in highe1 eoucational institutions like JNU. This is the dec1s1ve step towards democratisig higner education and to break the.
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brahm1nical hegemony over knowledge production, wh1ch can be a significant lanomark in the larger tight for .
ann.niiattng the most brutal oppressive institut1cn no.med c~ste, .
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