NEW DELHI: Accusing the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration of not implementing reservations for teachers as supposedly required by law, several students' organisations have issued a joint statement calling for a university strike and demonstration at the University Grants Commission on Monday.
The statement also calls for a demonstration on Tuesday when the JNU Executive Council meeting will be held. At the meeting the issue of reservations for teachers from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at the associate professor and professor level and from the Other Backward Classes at the assistant professor level will reportedly be discussed.
The issue of reservations has for sometime being referred back and forth between the EC and the Academic Council.
The EC approved of the reservations in April 2007. Posts were accordingly advertised. This was opposed by some in the AC in November 2009. The matter was placed for consideration in the EC in January 2010. The matter was referred to the AC and currently has been report-edly referred to the EC once more.After the last AC meeting finished on an inconclusive note with regard to reservations for teachers, another AC meeting was held on March 31 {+s} {+t}. The joint statement alleges that despite a majority support “in the AC that JNU should implement SC/ST reservations in all faculty posts, the JNU administration arbitrarily decided to ‘seek legal opinion' from the Solicitor General”.
Call for strike by JNU students'
