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Strengthen tho Struggle for Students' Representation in JNU's Decision-Making Bodies!.
Unite For aSocially Sensitive and Democratic JNU!The ongoing agitation has forced the Administration to concede several of the demands on the Students' Charter: including those relating.
to enhanced library and sports facilities, as well as a deadline of 15 October for allotment of Lohit-Loni Hostel, and SR. TR, NR status for.
r freshars who are yet to get hostels. The VC has also committed to write a strong letter to the UGC demanding funds for enhancing the MCM.
amount. But despite this assurance, we must not relax our pressure on this issue until the MCM amount is actually enhanced..
However, the Administration has outright refused to concede the crucial demands of student representation in AC, Board of Studies andGrievance Redressal Mechanism, and this is the main issue on which the JNUSU is continuing on an indefinite hunger strike.Why Should Students Have Elected Representation in Decision-Making Bodies?The Academ1c Council Is the highestbody where policy-level decisions on all academic matters are taken. It is this body which decides.
what courses will be introduced, what rules will govern academics, and the fee structure ofvarious courses.Itis students who studythe courses and syllabi;Rules and regulations affect students most;And ofcourse, students are the ones who pay fees.The University, after all, exists mainly forstudents.Why, then, shouldn't students have asay in deciding matters likecourses, rules and fees, which affectthem most?.
Student Representation in AC is Necessary to Oppose Commercialization and SaffronizationAt a time when pnvat1zation and commercialization threatens higher education in India. Universities are always looking for ways to.
1mpose these polic1es on students. The AC 1s the place where proposals offee hikes, self-financed, highly priced courses and other.
forms of privatization will be introduced. Students' presence in the AC will ensure that the student community is not kept in the.
darkaboutthese proposals-so, the demand for student representation in AC etc... is in fact a demand forthe right to information..
But, more importantly, it is also a demand forthe rightto participation in decision-making.Student representatives can argue in.
the AC against fee hikes and commercialized courses, thus making sure that the University cannot take such anti-student steps overruling.
students' op1n1ons .
In the past few years, we saw the threat of saffronization, too, knock at JNU's doors. The AC and Board of Studies are the bodies whereany saffronized, oommunal or obscurantist Centre, or course of study will have to be passed in order to become apart of JNU curriculum. So,it is crucial thatstudent representatives voice theirvigilant resistance to any such saffronized courses in JNU's decision-making bodies. .
Student Representation Is A Must For Unbiased Grievance Redressal.
Teachers, supervisors etc... have power over students. As a result, students are at adisadvantage when faced with unfair markjng,.
victimization, or harassment by teachers. Grievance RedressaIcan be effective and unbiased only when students too participate in theprocess. So. student representation in the Grievance Redressat Committee is necessary if students' grievances are really to get justice..
JNU Act Provides for Student Representation in AC and 8oS,.
Why is the VC Scared of Restoring These Rights?.
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The JNU Act of 1966, in Statutes 15 and 18, clearly provides for elected student representation in AC as well as Board of Studies.Elections to AC were held in 1974. However, these rights have been curtailed ever sincefhe Emergency. In 1976, the JNU Act was.
amended to exclude JNUSU representation in AC, but the provision for direct election of students to AC was retained, with the clause ofminimum CGPA added. No elections to AC have been held since, though the student movement has demanded the removal of the CGPA.
clause and membership of JNUSU in AC, in addition to restoration of elected student representation.Why is the VC bent on continuing this violation of the JNU Act? Why is he scared of re-implementing the Statutes of the JNU Act, and.
restoring students' .
democratic rights of participation in decision-making?Clearly, student representation in AC and other bodies, will make itdifficultto introduceanti-student policies likecommercialization and privatization, and to deny studentsjustice incases ofvictimization. This is whythe VC wants to avoid.
it at all costs. And this why we muststruggle to restore these rights, not justfor ourselves, butfor future generations of.
students in this University..
Friends, 9 students are on their second day of indefinite hungerstrike, while a 10students are daily joining the relay hungerstrike in solidarity with the struggle. Yet, 'the Administration and VC havetumed .
11 has joined it today. Several commona blind eye to thestudents on hungerstrike..
"A big bang is needed to make thedeafhear"! .
is forced to heed our voice. .
Friends,with our participation in tomorrow's massive protest demo at 3.00 pm at the Ad. Block,let us make sure that the deafAdministrationAISA appeals to students to join the Relay Hunger Strike, and also to participate in tomorrow.
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26.8.12 Participate in the Upcoming School GBMs Starting Tomorrow! .
Stand by JNUSU's Initiatives and Struggles Towards Greater Social Inclusion, Democratization,and Students' Rights, Against Commercialisation and Administrative Assaults!!.
We live iP times, when the 'democratically' elected governments openly defend corporate profiteering in Manesar,Nandrgram. Koodamkulam, Jagatsinghpur and elsewhere, where brutal state repression is the response to people's .
'movements for their lands, lives and livelihoods. Operation Green Hunt, AFSPA and UAPA are justified in the name of.
national security'. UPA's mindless nuclear overdrive as well as its hyperactivity in handing over all natural resources-.
Forests, minerals, oil and natural gas, seeds, water, land -to corporate is posing a huge threat to the country.
sovereignty food security, environment, health, and livelihoods of millions of common people. .
Minority wJtch-hunting and branding of innocent Muslim youth as 'terrorists' .
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becomes common place from Malegaonand Azarngarh to Darbhanga, as does racial profiling, threats and violence against people from the north-east..
Perpet~a· .rs of the dalit and Muslim massacre in Bathani Tala roam around scot free, while every day we witnessmounting mstances of casteist assaults on the lands, livelihood and dignity of dalits.Just as natural resources are handed over on a platter to corporate looters, laws are being framed for the corporate takeover of the education sector as well. On the one hand, universities are facing massive fund cuts and non-fulfilmentof faculty positions. On the other hand, MHRD is pushing for a set of raws that will promote rampantcommercialisation, do away with social justice, and provide immunity to private players from the laws of the land. It isin these times that the JNU students' .
movement and JNUSU has stood as a firm defender of students' and peoples'rights aga nst these multiple assaults. .
JNUSU's Initiatives and Struggles .
After a protracted legal and political struggle in JNU to defend the JNUSU constitution against the arbitrary impositionof the ~ ;''lQdoh committee recommendations, JNUSU elections were finally restored in March 2012. As per the 8th.
Oecernbe: 2011 verdict of the Supreme Court, JNUSU elections will be held next month. Therefore, the studentcommunity has to elect a new JNUSU election committee, so that JNUSU can handover charge and theprocess of conducting elections can be initiated. In keeping with the democratic traditions of JNU, JNUSU hascalled for General Body Meetings (GBMs) in all the schools, where Convenor reports will be tabled and debated on,and JNUSU election committee members will be elected. JNUSU has already put up the schedule for GBMs, andwe a'"'peal to the student community to participate in large numbers in all the GBMs. .
For JNUSU the students' union is not a seat of power; rather it is an instrument of struggle. JNUSU stands committedto broadenmg the horizons of the student movement of JNU -carrying forward struggles for social inclusion and social.
justice. against commercialization of higher education and for greater democratization. The current JNUSU had a very.
short tenure, having being elected only in March 2012. However, every single day of this tenure has been utilizedto carry forward and strengthen our struggles. .
Several initiatives were taken up for the very first time in JNU:.
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For the first time in JNU's history, the JNUSU took up the issue of the high weightage of viva marks as a.
major source of discrimination and exclusion in JNU's entrance exam. A massive struggle on this issuewas waged, which forced JNU'.
s Academic Council to set up a committee to look into our demands. Extensivedata analysis was done, Supreme Court and High court judgments to support our demands were procured andwidely circulated. In the committee, all machinations to dilute and deflect the issue were resisted. The vivacommittee was finally forced to accept JNUSU's analysis of systematic discrimination in the viva voce, and this.
report will now be circulated to all schools/centres..
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s intervention, for the first time, JNU as an institution conduced mandatory gender sensitizationand orientation classes, whereby gender sensitizatiQn becomes the instrtutional responsibility of the university.
rather than being restricted to the campaigns of some concerned groups..
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A national platform for campus democracy and against the Lyngdoh recommendations was forged. Thisis an important step ahead in our tough struggle to defend the JNUSU constitution. and put the ~nti-Lyngdoh.
struggle on the agenda of campuses across the country..
> Tatkal services in railway reservation were operationalised in JNU, which removed a huge hurdle andinconvenience to the student community. .
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For the first time in JNU, systematic, institutionalized efforts are being taken up to make JNU barrier-free for.
physically handicapped students; readers' and escorts' allowance for PHNH students has been increasedto Rs 2000 per month. .
;. Financial Assistance: Following JNUSU's agitation, the administration has in principle agreed to increase the.
MCM amount, on the receipt of funds under the 1th plan. The administration was also forced to agree inprinciple to enhance the time period of the UGC non-net scholarship, to cover the entire period of research andhas incorporated the same in the 12th plan proposals sent to the UGC. .
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reservation subject to the availability of eligible candidates so tpat the anomalfes In theprocess can be remedied". It was only after a strong point of order raised from the floor to remove the 'eligibility' clause. But from what understanding and position this clause ·comes· speaking the same language as the meritocratlc administration and Y4E? Whom are theytryingObjections were also raised from the floor when the SSS councillors from AISA had put the resolut1on .
house holds that for fulfilling the increased intake in the wake of OBC reservatio.ns, a prop-rl"'~'" '·:;~~·~~,~-~~ .
defined one shot offer method should be worked out for JNU admissions in the forthtomlng .sre.ctr.· .~ 1 .
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asked whether JNUSU holds offer system as a better system, to which the 5SS Councillor replied that:·~we .
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keeping in view the due share of different categories in the admission list." The Councillors were.
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think it Is a better system." When the students replied that this Is a complete contradiction of the.
the line "This house holds that reservation and seat increase would be calculated on the basis .
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held by JNU5U so far that offer system is arbitrary and not 'legally tenable', the 555 Councillors hastltySdcli.
Until the UGBM the JNUSU held that the offer system Is arbitrary and legally untenable. Why did they wait .
only until this point of placing resolutions to reveal their position that offer Is a better system? JNUSU claims.
However from then until now this Is the first time they have argued In favour of the offer system. Even then, that in the Academic Council meeting in May they had argued for the offer system which got defeated..
this resolution does not unconditionally support offer but a "properly defined one shot offer system" which .
they themselves have not properly defined In the UGBM or after it. We demand that the JNUSU stop .
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fooled their own cadre and students who stood In favour of Intake. .
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deceiving the student community and clarify this method of admission. By placing this resolution they alsoYESTERDAY'S CALL FOR All ORGANIZATION CAOl Mt;ETING; TOO LITILE TOO LATE? For tht.. past two weeks, we have repeatedly demanded all organization meetings, GBMs, etc from the JNUSU to debate the .
0 issues at hand. They consistently denied this-the JNUSU Joint Secretary even stated after the Standing .
Committee meeting that "we will call It when we think It Is required." Finally they were forced to call a UGBM .
which they conducted In a highly undemocratic manner. Yesterday, they gave a call for an AO meeting to decide on the future course of action. However, the future course of action had already been decided .
unilaterally by the JNUSU which was a call for mass hunger strike at Ad Block even before the AO was held. .
Clearly the democratic functioning of the JNUSU works quite well according to their discretionary powers! We.
even the dissenting voices have a space to be heard. Moreover, we have noticed that the JNU5U Is not demand that the JNUSU stops making a mockery of democratic norms, and functions In a manner in which.
faithfully reporting to the student community about the deliberations within the administration of which the.
student community about the Academic Council decision that the intake and walt list system is being ,, Union Is a part of. A glaring example of it Is the failure (deliberate, or otherwise) of the JNU5U to Inform the.
who concealed the Information that the Prime Minister was coming to JNU three years back. We demand that .
introduced in place of the offer system. It reminds us also of the ex-JNUSU president from AISA Mona Oasthe JNU5U bring all the information about the present admission process to the notice of the student community immediately. The Union must also demand from the administration the center-wjse break-up of student registration this year, so that the violations In reservation are known in detail..
SEX's Sorry Tale of Opportunism continues: The sudden change of position and complete silence on thereservations, seat cut and to restore offer system cunningly In a single resolution ,and managed to get them issue of seat cut right after the UGBM should not surprise us. SFI placed its demands on the issue of.
defeated at one go. Subsequently they have very conveniently relinquished their "radical pretension and moved back to toeing the line of the administration. They should now clarify whether they still maintain .
the position of seat cut or not. Ifthey do, then should their councilors not resign upholding theirtoo much to ask from the upholders of soclal...fasclsm on campus? .
position rather than falling back on the populist politics AISA Is trying to propagate? Or will It be .
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'SFI-Led DSU'?_The most striking aspect of the post-UGBM AISA poster was Its resemblance with the.
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are In alliance with SFI. Isn't this the blame SFI always puts on AISA when they vote again~t school language with which SFI had spoken all these while. When we opposed AISA's resolution they propagated we.
Convenor's reports along wlth ABVP7 AISA's sudden invention of such alliance only reflects their own political .I..
implementation of OBC reservation In JNU. .
social justice, rather than trying to mislead the student community on the gross violations In the .
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bankruptcy. We appeal to the AISA-Ied JNUSU to confront the truth and lead an uncompromising struggJ.e for .
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School computer The Dean has approved our demand for more computers in the School computer.
rooms rooms and has demanded more computers from the Rector in writing..
Departmental The Chairpersons of CPS and CSSS have wri.
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tten to the Rector asking for more computers.
computer rooms for students in the course of the past week. The Rector has also approved this demand and.
has replied to the Centres, asking them to start the process of replacing out-of-ordercomputers. In the case of CESP, the Centre has since yesterday started the process ofrepairing of out of order computers and maintenance of all computers by forming acommittee comprising SFC members, common students and a faculty member. CSMCH.
and ZHCES will be setting up new computer rooms pending renovation of their respectivefloors. Computer facilities Computers and software for visually handicapped students are in the process of beingfor visually ordered by the Equal Opportunity Office. The Rector has approved JNUSU-SSS' demandhandicapped for this process to be expedited and is looking into the matter.students Academicdemands: Start an MA in the The Vice Chancellor has stated in a speech to the JNU Court that an MA in PhilosophyCentre for would be started. While there is no mention of a time frame by which this course will bePhilosophy started, this is still a major step forward on this lonq standinq demand.The Centre for The Honorary Director of the Programme for North East Studies has verbally assured usNorth East Studies .
that she is working towards a course being offered by this programme by the Wintershould be started. Semester of the next academic session. She will be raising this demand in the Standing.
Committee meeting of the Programme that will be held at the end of this month. .
The Programme for The PSDE has been awarded a grant by the UGC, which the Dean revealed to us on 4ththe Study of .
April. With this grant, the PSDE can have its own library, hire faculty and staff and have.
Discrimination and research fellows. This however will have to go through the Board of Studies and other.
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The Dean assured us that the Programme is in the process of formulating an application forWomen's Studies a grant to the UGC in order to have the funds required to hire additional faculty and staff..
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Remedial classes We are continuing our efforts to fulfill this demand by exploring options at the level of bothin English should the Centres and School.be started in CSMCH, CSSS and ZHCES .
On other demands as well, there has been progress. For example, in the CHS faculty meeting it wasdecided that the demand for a South Indian language being taught in the Centre would be probed. In CSSS, thedemand for remedial classes in English was brought to the attention of the Chairperson and she has started theprocess of raising this matter within her department. In CSRD, the Chairperson has demanded from the Dean inwriting additional funds in order to keep the Documentation Centre open till 8 pm throughout the academic year.With this agitation, it has been made amply clear that the students of SSS wilf not accept non-.
committal responses from the administration. With the end of the academic year approaching, the.
achievements made on the question of students' .
facilities in SSS will greatly benefit all the students of SSS,from MA to PhD. At the same time, we will continue to fight for students' issues and demands in the coming days..
We thank the students once again for their steady support to our agitation and appeal to them to continue to rally.
behind the JNUSU-SSS in our future struggles. .
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position was endorsed by the UGBM took no steps to explore "political options" to expedite the JNUSU and the Joint Struggle Committee to implement ~he mandate. However, the AISA whose .
The Sfl had accepted the democratic mandate of the student community and called upon theprocess of holding JNUSU Elections as per the JNUSU Constitution. thus violating its own UGBM .
resolution. The Writ Petition which was filed in the Court and last heard on May 3 has not got any .
Constitution Bench has been formed to hear our case and the JNUSU elections are nowhere in foresight. .
final ruling till now. The Matter is still pending in the Court. Contrary to the claims of the AISA, no.
The SFI had criticized the AISA resolution during that time,.
··Your organization's Resolution (latest version) binds the entire collective initiative to conduct the .
JNUSU elections to one single course of action, namely filing a petition in the Supreme Court. We are .
yet to know what had stopped you from doing so till date because there was no UGBM resolution barring.
this semester." (From An Open Letter to the JNUSU President dated February 9, 2010) .
such a course of action; but that is another matter. Even now and at this stage, all legal and political .
options over and above filing a petition need to be kept open in order to conduct the elections within.
elections to the Academic Council, Board of Studies and GSCASH in the first half of this semester. .
The AISA has brought out a pamphlet yesterday saying that the student community should hold .
The pamphlet only makes vague references to the holding of JNUSU Elections and passes the responsibility of doing this to the Joint Struggle Committee, as if it is some abstract entity. We believe that this pQsition is not in keeping with the democratic mandate of the student community since it relegates the central task of holding JNUSU Elections to the background. .
While we all are in favour holding elections for student representatives .
GSCASH, they are not a substitute for JNUSU Elections. One reason for this is that the domain .
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resolve the ongoing hostel crisis since these issues cannot be solved in bodies like the Academic Constitution, has enshrined within iLa democratic system, which has Councilors from all schools .
of these statutory bodies is limited. For example only a JNUSU could force the administration to .
Council, Board of Studies or GSCASH. The JNUSU Council which works according to the JNUSUcannot be provided for, by anything else. and Office-Bearers, who are elected by the entire student community. This democratic set-up .
The SFI believes that holding JNUSU Elections in this semester itself is the biggest challenge .
which faces the student community. A broadest possible unity of students should be built in .
this regard. It is unfortunate that the AISA has chosen to come up with a position without any .
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unilateralism will not help to unite the student community. .
consultation with other organizations and is only asking others to accept its proposal. Such .
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The SFI believes that without taking urgent and determined efforts to hold the JNUSU .
has suffered in the last two years. .
Elections in this semester itself, the JNU Student Movement cannot overcome the reverses it.
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Joint Struggle Comm'ittee for exploring all legal and political means to hold the JNUSU Elections. appeal to all other organizations to unite for implementing the UGBM mandate which asked the We appeal to the student com~unity to rally behind a united struggle in this direction. We also .
Lenin, President, SFI-JNU .
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