Fifty members of the Academic Council (AC) and Executive Council (EC) of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have written to the Registrar of the university rejecting the claim that the university’s 142nd AC meeting in December had approved substantial amendments to its ordinances.
The teachers wrote that they would like to place on record their objection to the circulated amendments to the ordinances relating to the award of the degree of M.Phil/Ph.D that were circulated on April 21.
“These illegal ordinances have never been discussed or approved by the AC in either its 141st or 142nd meetings, and none of us have conveyed our assent, explicitly or implicitly, to these ordinances,” wrote the teachers.
The JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) said that that EC ratified these ordinances based on “false” and “fabricated” minutes of the 142nd AC meeting and they must be immediately withdrawn.
The JNUTA added that the ordinances have undone decades of democracy and transparency in the functioning of the university.
