KOLKATA: Jadavpur University persisted to stay on the boil on Thursday, an afternoon after the executive council (EC) scrapped admission tests for six arts school subjects, with the administration facing attacks from 3 fronts: Raj Bhavan, arts school members and scholars.
Students gheraoed vice-chancellor Suranjan Das, drawing a robust rebuke from Das, who said he was ill and deserved better as a “senior citizen” than this “unconstitutional and undemocratic protest”. The V-C after all left the campus round middle of the night.
A big phase of arts school members, specifically from the English department, decided to stay away from the admission procedure to convey their sense of “betrayal and sadness” on the method wherein their recommendations had been “overturned” by the EC “on the last minute”. The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association, too, weighed in, calling a cease-work on Friday.
But it was a move from the Raj Bhavan that opened a new front for the beleaguered adm-inistration in addition to the state schooling department. Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Wednesday sought a document on the unheard of logjam on the campus in the middle of the admission season.
Another school move would keep the administration anxious. Seven departmental heads (of English, Comparative Literature, Bengali, Philosophy, Film Studies, Sociology and Education) gave a note to the Arts school admission committee vice-chairman, which made it transparent that they had been running with the administration underneath duress.
The letter said they had been “offering the modalities of admission” to their departmental heads “underneath protest” within the “full wisdom that any recommendation made could also be overturned by the... college, as has happened a number of occasions during the last few weeks”. One of the seven departmental heads later informed TOI: “None of my department’s teachers goes to take part within the admission procedure.” VC Das, also the chairman of the admission committee, did not attend this assembly.
A big phase of students and JU alumni erupted in protest against the dismantling of a “time-tested” admission gadget. The students’ dharna in front of the administrative development, which confined Das and other officers, entered its 2d day. It brought administrative paintings to a halt and put a query mark on how the college would take the admission procedure ahead after students began filling admission bureaucracy anew from July 6.
“We don't seem to be going to accept the rest less than the withdrawal of the executive council’s resolution. We are involved with Juta and can take all decisions in session with students and teachers,” History postgraduate pupil Avik Sen said.
The scenario on the campus may actually irritate as a result of the Juta cease-work name for Friday. Juta members would also collect in front of Gandhi Bhavan from 12 midday to three p.m. to protest against the EC resolution to scrap written tests, Juta assistant secretary Partha Pratim Ray said.
The VC was as peeved with the students’ stir that kept him confined to his place of job. “I will be able to’t move out of my place of job. I tried it twice on Wednesday but was stopped. The way the students have kept us in wrongful confinement is unconstitutional. I have a family, I am ill, we are senior voters. Is this democracy?” Das, dressed in a kurta and a pajama and reclining on a sofa, asked.
Das said he was simplest wearing out an executive council resolution. “It took a unanimous resolution. There are some departments that admit students simplest on the foundation of entrance tests while some others give equal significance to the board examination marks. This explains the initial resolution (toi give equal significance to board examination and entrance take a look at marks). But the JU Act says the admission committee makes a decision on admission procedures and so we referred this resolution to the admission committee. But this committee may not arrive at a conclusion. A call could have been taken had I cast my vote but I selected against it. Instead, I proposed this matter be referred to the executive council, which anyway had to take the overall resolution,” he said.
He added that there was no voting within the executive council after the controversy over admission procedures on Wednesday. Ten members proposed admission simplest on the foundation of board marks, a procedure in vogue in Delhi University, but six others most well-liked an admission take a look at. “But those six members then wrote on a work of paper that they might nonetheless cross with a a marks-based admission procedure for this year to damage the impasse,” Das explained.
Students gheraoed vice-chancellor Suranjan Das, drawing a robust rebuke from Das, who said he was ill and deserved better as a “senior citizen” than this “unconstitutional and undemocratic protest”. The V-C after all left the campus round middle of the night.
A big phase of arts school members, specifically from the English department, decided to stay away from the admission procedure to convey their sense of “betrayal and sadness” on the method wherein their recommendations had been “overturned” by the EC “on the last minute”. The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association, too, weighed in, calling a cease-work on Friday.
But it was a move from the Raj Bhavan that opened a new front for the beleaguered adm-inistration in addition to the state schooling department. Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Wednesday sought a document on the unheard of logjam on the campus in the middle of the admission season.
Another school move would keep the administration anxious. Seven departmental heads (of English, Comparative Literature, Bengali, Philosophy, Film Studies, Sociology and Education) gave a note to the Arts school admission committee vice-chairman, which made it transparent that they had been running with the administration underneath duress.
The letter said they had been “offering the modalities of admission” to their departmental heads “underneath protest” within the “full wisdom that any recommendation made could also be overturned by the... college, as has happened a number of occasions during the last few weeks”. One of the seven departmental heads later informed TOI: “None of my department’s teachers goes to take part within the admission procedure.” VC Das, also the chairman of the admission committee, did not attend this assembly.
A big phase of students and JU alumni erupted in protest against the dismantling of a “time-tested” admission gadget. The students’ dharna in front of the administrative development, which confined Das and other officers, entered its 2d day. It brought administrative paintings to a halt and put a query mark on how the college would take the admission procedure ahead after students began filling admission bureaucracy anew from July 6.
“We don't seem to be going to accept the rest less than the withdrawal of the executive council’s resolution. We are involved with Juta and can take all decisions in session with students and teachers,” History postgraduate pupil Avik Sen said.
The scenario on the campus may actually irritate as a result of the Juta cease-work name for Friday. Juta members would also collect in front of Gandhi Bhavan from 12 midday to three p.m. to protest against the EC resolution to scrap written tests, Juta assistant secretary Partha Pratim Ray said.
The VC was as peeved with the students’ stir that kept him confined to his place of job. “I will be able to’t move out of my place of job. I tried it twice on Wednesday but was stopped. The way the students have kept us in wrongful confinement is unconstitutional. I have a family, I am ill, we are senior voters. Is this democracy?” Das, dressed in a kurta and a pajama and reclining on a sofa, asked.
Das said he was simplest wearing out an executive council resolution. “It took a unanimous resolution. There are some departments that admit students simplest on the foundation of entrance tests while some others give equal significance to the board examination marks. This explains the initial resolution (toi give equal significance to board examination and entrance take a look at marks). But the JU Act says the admission committee makes a decision on admission procedures and so we referred this resolution to the admission committee. But this committee may not arrive at a conclusion. A call could have been taken had I cast my vote but I selected against it. Instead, I proposed this matter be referred to the executive council, which anyway had to take the overall resolution,” he said.
He added that there was no voting within the executive council after the controversy over admission procedures on Wednesday. Ten members proposed admission simplest on the foundation of board marks, a procedure in vogue in Delhi University, but six others most well-liked an admission take a look at. “But those six members then wrote on a work of paper that they might nonetheless cross with a a marks-based admission procedure for this year to damage the impasse,” Das explained.
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