Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday marched to the Ministry of Human Resource Development calling on the officials to save the varsity’s “democratic and inclusive ethos”.
The students, who were joined by their teachers, submitted a ‘charge sheet’ against Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar to Ministry officials demanding his removal.
‘Assault on university’
The students charged the V-C with leading an assault on the university through a series of policy decision that have ‘altered the character of the university’.
“His policies — like massive seat cut in research, decimation of reservations and deprivation points, scrapping of Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment [GSCASH], bid to dismantle integrated BA-MA and integrated MPhil-PhD, tampering with faculty selection committees and rules for partisan appointments, and now arbitrary regimentation in the name of compulsory attendance — are only systematically destroying JNU,” said JNUSU president Geeta Kumari.
The JNUSU accused the V-C of “fabricating” minutes of the Academic Council meeting by shutting dialogue and silencing dissent through threats and punishment. The students clarified that they are not against attending classes but against regimentation.
