The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union on Tuesday along with students from several other universities across the city protested the soon to be implemented Central Universities Act, against the Lyndoyh Committee recommendations in place for students’ union elections across the country since 2006.
The protest that began at Jantar Mantar was prevented from going further by the police, who reportedly resorted to lathi-charge. “Protesting students were lathi-charged and some were detained at the Parliament Street police station,” claimed Chintu, JNUSU general secretary.
“We have seen that in recent years, students have repeatedly been treated as guinea pigs for ill-motivated Tughlaqi experiments. It started with the forced imposition of the “semester system”, followed by “FYUP”, and now the Credit Based Choice System that has shallow foundation, core and elective papers. This will dilute the academic quality of honours courses and over-burden students and teachers with useless courses, when colleges lack both permanent teachers and enough infrastructure,” said JNUSU president Ashutosh Kumar, adding that the Lyndoyh Committee recommendations were only curbing campus democracy.
