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JNU family upset over Supreme Court order

The recent Supreme Court stay on the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union elections has left many on the campus livid.

Many student activists want to know why JNU’s democratic election model, which was appreciated by the Lyngdoh Committee itself, was not considered.

“The stay order is very unfortunate. There are so many universities and institutions that violate the Supreme Court order as they refuse to hold students’ union elections. There are other universities where the outfits openly flout the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations and flaunt their money and muscle power, not to forget the violent activities during the campaigning. Why is all that not being taken into account?” asked a political activist.

Even as JNU students rally support for their campaign, their teachers have extended their solidarity against the stay order.

A solidarity public meeting was held on the campus earlier this week that was attended and addressed by several teachers including JNU Teachers’ Association president Prof. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Prof. M.H. Qureshi, Prof. Varyam Singh, Prof. Anand Kumar, Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Prof. Anuradha Chenoy and Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya.

The teachers spoke about the history of the students’ union and JNU tradition of conducting peaceful and democratic elections on the campus.

Noted filmmaker and social activist Mahesh Bhatt was invited as chief guest to a national seminar on “Threats of terrorism to secular democracy in India” organised by the Millat Bedari Muhim Committee (MBMC) on the Aligarh Muslim University campus over the weekend.

In his speech, Mr. Bhatt pointed out that the country belonged to all and every one had an equal share in it. He also urged the youth to follow the Constitutional or legal path and to solve the problem within society.

The filmmaker later released a magazine called “The Aligarh Movement” and felicitated the editorial board of the journal.

Separately, there was some good news for AMU. Two of its students, Nusrat Khan and Rohit Agrawal, have secured first and second position, respectively, in the recently announced results of the Public Civil Services Judicial Services examination of Uttarakhand.

Pearl School of Business, Gurgaon, in association with Eduexcel, a national level organisation working for higher education development, organised a convention for school Principals in the Capital this past week.

The theme of the event was “Managing Schools with Leadership, Innovation and Social Responsibility”. The idea was to familiarise the Principals with the concept of entrepreneurship, globalisation, and socially responsible citizenship.

“The present education system in India, so far, has not been able to promote independent thinking, spirit of innovation and motivation for setting a challenging goal. There is a need to inculcate the spirit of enterprise into the psyche of the present generation, and this is possible only when the principals and academicians become a catalyst of this change,” said Pearl School of Business director I.M. Pandey.

Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, an autonomous research body under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Under this venture, the focus will be on the advanced research work in pharmacogenomics, heavy metal studies, general quality control, clinical studies and digitalisation of manuscripts in the field of Unani medicine.

“There will be technical support from CCRUM for teaching and training of students at the Faculty of Unani Medicine at Jamia Hamdard. With this venture, a well-equipped biomedical laboratory for advance researches in herbal drugs will also be established on our campus,” said the University spokesperson.

Parul Sharma

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