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We congratulate the student community for their continuous and spirited participation in JNUSUThe entire phase of this year's admission process has been witness to numerous violations on the .

part of the administration, on the one hand, while co~tinuous protest by the student c.ommunity. The '.nvolved several .

12-day long hunger-strike that ended ye~terday, was 1ndeed a protra.cted one, that also .

·'"' protest demonstrations, univer~ity~level stn~~·. UGBM, mass hunger stnke and d~monstrat1on at the UGC. Faced with extreme administrative 1rrespons1bll1ty, JNUSU and the student commun1ty have had to resort to all .

" forms of protest to expose and oppose the massive anomalies in the admission process and the non-.

implementation of reservation in 2008. Yesterday. after several rounds of negotiation that stretched upto-12 hours, the JNU administration was compelled to respond to several key demands of JNUSU regarding -implementation of reservation and various With respect to these demands, the following agreement was .

anomalies in this years' admissions. .

signed by the JNU Administration: The University will constitute a committee of experts to look into all issues pertaining to OBC admissions.

1. 'procedure and process. The Committee will examine t~e position as expressed in the office .

memorandum issued by the MHRD and the Supreme Court Judgement etc. The JNUSU will be a part of the above committee. The JNUSU will submit its questions and its position on the interpretation of .

the MHRD offtce memorandum to this committee. .

2. The University will also appoint a committee to[eview the entire admission policy and procedures with special emphasis to the short fall in intake of unreserved seats and categories induding SC, ST, PH ... and OBC. Representation from all concerned sections of the university should be ensured in this committee. The committee will also explore the relative merit of the offer system as a mechanism of .

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fulfilling the approved intake. The committee will submit its recommendations to the University for · ·.

further action. .

3. Given the shortfall in the number of candidates admitted in the year 2008 as against the intake approved .

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by the AC., the university agrees that vacant seats in each category would be carried over to the next · year's admission, subject to the approval of the AC. .

4. The JNU administration provided JNUSU its position paper on the admission procedure followed in .

2008 with special reference to interpretation of the OBC reservation including the legal opinion obtained .

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In this very first year of implementing OBC reservation, from the outset, the JNU Administration has sought to create obstacles in the policy of OBC reservation and concomitant seat increase. JNUSU continuously maintained that these issues do not reflect simple or pardonable lapses on the part of JNU ·.·..

. Administration. Rather, they reflect a pattern and mindsetto scuttle reservation to the greatest extent .

possible. In the Academic Council meeting, the JNU VC misled the AC by claiming that since there is a bar of .

50% on total reservations. so after the OBC reservation Act, 3% reservation for PH students cannot be given .

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as a separate category. Only when JNUSU took up the concern of PH students, was the JNU .

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Administration forced to concede that reservation for PH and women students DO NOT come under .

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""¥· the 50% bar. Following this, a fresh list of PH students was released. Then again, when the list was released for the M.Phil viva-voce, the cut-off marks for OBC students were kept the same as that of general .

students, in gross violation of the law. Again the JNUSU intervened to correct this anomaly. .

At each juncture, when the administration should have adopted a responsible position and ensured that the admission process was undertaken in complete transparency, JNUSU had to intervene to uphold the basic legal responsibilities that should have been the obligation of the administration itself. Further, the administration's gross insensitivity only increased during the indefinite hunger strike. On the one occasion the VC came down, he did so not to enquire about the health of hunger strikers, but to incite .

common students against him. This reflects only that the attitude of the administration is one of gross insensitivity. It is due to the vigilance and protest of the student community that the JNU Administration had to retreat from its .

position and start negotiations with JNUSU. .

Non-fulfilment of seats for SC, ST and PH students .

JNUSU has been constantly drawing attention to the fact that the seats for the SC, ST and PH students remain unfilled. The fact is that until this year, the university has been carefully fudging figures to showthat SC, .

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