JNUSU protests, submits letter to UGC asking it to revoke admission notification
NEW DELHI: On the issue of revocation of the UGC gazette notification, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) has written to the UGC officials.
The members of JNUSU resisted the proposals in the UGC notification which provides 100 per cent admission criteria to the process of viva-voce.
Alleging that it will create favouritism and will adversely affect the socially backward students, the students have demanded that the marks of the viva-voce should be reduced.
In the letter, the JNUSU has cited the Abdul Nafey report and highlighted that as there is a possibility of discrimination against socially backward students and said that the weightage of the viva-voce marks should be fifteen per cent.
“We may reminded the UGC that in 1980, a five-judge Constitution Bench did not allow the selection process to have more than 15 per cent weightage for viva-voce process because of the discriminatory potential structurally embedded in any interview process,” the letter highlighted.
The letter also highlighted that the current notification of the UGC to reduce the number of seats of Mphil and PHD will further mar the future prospects of research scholars.
The students in their letter also complained of the rigid admission process that will be created by the UGC notification.
Earlier, students protested at the UGC office asking the officials to revoke the law.
In the slogans chanted, the students raised the demands of ensuring transparency in the admission process, social justice to all the category of students and to maintain the autonomy of Central Universities.