Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) said that it will file a legitimate case in Delhi High Court on Monday (January 20, 2020) looking to quash the ‘wrongfully passed’ Inter Hostel Management (IHA) manual.
“The call for a boycott of registration still stands. The JNUSU would like to inform the student community in consonance with the resolutions of the Council Meeting the union is filing a legal case in Delhi High court tomorrow to quash the illegally passed IHA manual,” the students’ association said on Sunday (January 19, 2020).
JNUSU likewise educated the students that the appeal will likewise look for enlistment at old rates and without late fines. “It is unequivocally apparent that the new IHA manual unmistakably abuses the JNU Act 1966, we thus ask everybody to hold up till the JNUSU speeds up every single lawful measure against the unlawfully passed IHA manual and explains the advancement by the beginning of one week from now,” the release said.
It said that taking tests or classes will just make more mayhem and fuss and “lead to another bifurcation in the student network that has been fearlessly and unitedly battling like there’s no tomorrow against this draconian VC and his political masters. While asking the understudies to remain with the call for boycotting enlistment, the JNUSU likewise advances the understudy network to blacklist tests and classes until the VC’s task of WhatsApp University and unlawful methods of assessment are invalidated and a support time to finish the academic backlogs, to finish the scholastic excess of the Monsoon Semester 2019,” the release said.
It added further, “Any academic schedule shall only be brought through discussions between teachers and students. The JNUSU rejects all arbitrary schedules released by the JNU Administration in order to portray false normalcy.”
The under graduate students of JNU have been fighting for more than two months against the new manual, which hikes hostel and administration charges and imposes a few limitations.
Author: Swetalana Rout
