The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has decided to go on a one-day strike on July 31 to protest against the current administration.
The decision was taken at a general body meeting (GBM), where it was also decided that a two-question referendum would be held on August 7. The referendum will be on removal of the JNU vice-chancellor and rejecting the Higher Education Funding Authority (HEFA) loan.
“The GBM expressed the opinion that under the leadership of JNU Vice-Chancellor, M. Jagadesh Kumar, the university is being steadily pushed towards a path of destruction,” read a statement by the JNUTA
“The GBM rejected the misguided efforts of the current V-C and his administration to convert this university, built with objectives of a socially, economically and a gender-just university, into an authoritarian teaching shop,” said the JNUTA.
Reject HEFA loan
The association also categorically rejected JNU’s application for loan to the HEFA and burdening the faculty and students with raising funds for repayment of the loan, the JNUTA statement read.
The JUNTA also reiterated its resolution to resist regimented notions of attendance and condemned the JNU administration’s “wilful misreading and continued implementation of illegal rules of attendance for students and teachers”.
