New Delhi

Focus on JNU's cultural clubs

The Students' Federation of India and All-India Students' Federation coalition has won six of the nine seats in the recent elections to Jawaharlal Nehru University's cultural clubs. The polls for the clubs took place this past week after a gap of well over half a decade.

The University witnessed unprecedented polling with organisers having to extend the polling time by two hours to accommodate the rush.

Three seats have been won by the National Students' Union of India and All India Students' Association. As many as 1,800 students cast their votes in the elections.

The students who won the election include Mushtaq Husain (Fine Arts), Vibhavari (Literary Club), Nila Mohanan (Debating), Manish Kumar Shrivastava (Nature and Wildlife), Kuwar Sudhanshu Lal (Drama) and Manzoor Ali (Music). "We were very pleased with the turnout and the deadline had to be extended by two hours so that everyone got a chance to vote. The results were a welcome change and representatives from different parties will get a chance to head various clubs,'' said Chief Election Officer Netaji Abhinandan.

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Using the Right To Information Act-2005, students of Delhi University's Campus Law Centre and Law Centre-1 have joined hands to file more than 100 applications for obtaining the evaluated answer-sheets of their LLB examination, results of which were declared recently.

Students are seeking fairness and transparency in the examination process. Their demands include disclosure of names of examiners, publications of tabulation sheet and scheme of evaluation and model answers.

"Section 4 of the Right to Information Act-2005 provides for suo motu disclosure of some information within 120 days of the enactment of the Act. But even after a lapse of around nine months, Delhi University has not yet published these suo motu disclosures. Application under the RTI Act has also been filed for this suo motu disclosure,'' said Campus Law Centre Students' Union joint secretary Naushad Alam.

According to a release issued by the Campus Law Centre Students' Union, earlier on a similar application for obtaining answer-sheets the Public Information Officer of Delhi University had refused to give the answer-sheets and said that these pertained to exemption from disclosure of information for national security and commercial confidence. The applicant has challenged this refusal and the second appeal is pending with the Central Information Commission.

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The Institute of Management Technology , Ghaziabad, is holding its convocation for batches that have passed out in 2005 and the current batch from the Ghaziabad and Nagpur campuses this coming Friday.

The chief guest at the convocation will be Tata Sons Chairman Ratan N. Tata and the ceremony will be presided over by Union Industry and Commerce Minister Kamal Nath. -- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

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