KOLKATA: The scholars' siege of Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das and other executive council participants that started on Wednesday afternoon ended just about Thursday-Friday midnight, as the protesters allowed him to move home.
However, the scholars gave him a closing date of 5 pm on Friday to roll again the Executive Council's July four resolution scrapping admission assessments for undergraduate classes in six humanities topics.
"We have allowed him to go. We have given them (the university authorities) time till Friday, 3 pm, to roll back the July 4 decision and implement the EC's June 27 decision to prepare the merit list for admission based on equal weightage to admission test and marks obtained in the previous board examination," said a protesting scholar Debraj Koley .
He said the scholars would get a hold of some novel types of protest if the authorities did not yield to their call for.
Das, who spend 31 hours confined to his chamber, previous expressed dismay over the protests, calling them A"inhuman", however categorically said he would no longer name the police.
"I have a number of diseases, however they don't seem to be permitting me to practice the protocols prompt by way of my docs. My health is getting affected. In the identify of launching a democratic moment they are infringing on our right to spend a typical existence with our family.
"The resolution has been taken by way of the majority of executive council participants. I am sure to abide by way of that as consistent with university rules. What may I have accomplished?
"But I will never call the police. I will hope good sense prevails," he instructed mediapersons at his room.
Meanwhile,a section of Athe lecturers of the English department have decided to stay away from all the admission procedure, protesting in opposition to the "insult" and acehumiliation" meted out to them by way of the authorities.
The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association has also decided to hold a ceasework on Friday.
In a volte face, apparently beneath power from the West Bengal executive, JU authorities on Wednesday decided to eliminate the decades-old machine of preserving entrance assessments for admission to 6 under-graduate classes, triggering protests from scholars and present and former lecturers.
Every week previous, the university executive council had declared that admission assessments could be held for 6 departments of the arts move - comparative literature, historical past, political science, philosophy, English and Bengali.
But it had also decided that for getting ready the benefit checklist, equal weightage could be given to marks and the check.
However, on Wednesday, the EC in a solution withdrew the notification issued previous for admission assessments and said "under-graduate admission in arts must be carried out at the basis of marks obtained in the closing board examination by myself, without undertaking any written admission check".
The EC, on the other hand, said the decision has been taken for the coming instructional year only "with a purpose to deal with the deadlock created by way of prison questions regarding the procedure, and not to inconvenience the 1000's of candidates expecting sure bet regarding the admission procedure.".
Earlier, the university witnessed an uproar following the decision to take the services of "external mavens" in getting ready one ofA the two units of query papers for the admission assessments, and the opinion of the advocate general that the Board of Studies has no role to play in the admission procedure.
The latest EC resolution got here in the backdrop of state education minister Partha Chatterjee on a couple of instance speaking out in opposition to the JU preserving admission assessments for undergraduate classes in some topics, while admitting scholars at the basis of plus two ends up in any other classes.
Soon after the EC assembly, a lot of slogan-shttuing scholars started an impromptu sit-in demonstration in entrance of Aurobindo Bhavan, the university's administrative headquarters, and confined the vice chancellor to his room.
However, the scholars gave him a closing date of 5 pm on Friday to roll again the Executive Council's July four resolution scrapping admission assessments for undergraduate classes in six humanities topics.
"We have allowed him to go. We have given them (the university authorities) time till Friday, 3 pm, to roll back the July 4 decision and implement the EC's June 27 decision to prepare the merit list for admission based on equal weightage to admission test and marks obtained in the previous board examination," said a protesting scholar Debraj Koley .
He said the scholars would get a hold of some novel types of protest if the authorities did not yield to their call for.
Das, who spend 31 hours confined to his chamber, previous expressed dismay over the protests, calling them A"inhuman", however categorically said he would no longer name the police.
"I have a number of diseases, however they don't seem to be permitting me to practice the protocols prompt by way of my docs. My health is getting affected. In the identify of launching a democratic moment they are infringing on our right to spend a typical existence with our family.
"The resolution has been taken by way of the majority of executive council participants. I am sure to abide by way of that as consistent with university rules. What may I have accomplished?
"But I will never call the police. I will hope good sense prevails," he instructed mediapersons at his room.
Meanwhile,a section of Athe lecturers of the English department have decided to stay away from all the admission procedure, protesting in opposition to the "insult" and acehumiliation" meted out to them by way of the authorities.
The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association has also decided to hold a ceasework on Friday.
In a volte face, apparently beneath power from the West Bengal executive, JU authorities on Wednesday decided to eliminate the decades-old machine of preserving entrance assessments for admission to 6 under-graduate classes, triggering protests from scholars and present and former lecturers.
Every week previous, the university executive council had declared that admission assessments could be held for 6 departments of the arts move - comparative literature, historical past, political science, philosophy, English and Bengali.
But it had also decided that for getting ready the benefit checklist, equal weightage could be given to marks and the check.
However, on Wednesday, the EC in a solution withdrew the notification issued previous for admission assessments and said "under-graduate admission in arts must be carried out at the basis of marks obtained in the closing board examination by myself, without undertaking any written admission check".
The EC, on the other hand, said the decision has been taken for the coming instructional year only "with a purpose to deal with the deadlock created by way of prison questions regarding the procedure, and not to inconvenience the 1000's of candidates expecting sure bet regarding the admission procedure.".
Earlier, the university witnessed an uproar following the decision to take the services of "external mavens" in getting ready one ofA the two units of query papers for the admission assessments, and the opinion of the advocate general that the Board of Studies has no role to play in the admission procedure.
The latest EC resolution got here in the backdrop of state education minister Partha Chatterjee on a couple of instance speaking out in opposition to the JU preserving admission assessments for undergraduate classes in some topics, while admitting scholars at the basis of plus two ends up in any other classes.
Soon after the EC assembly, a lot of slogan-shttuing scholars started an impromptu sit-in demonstration in entrance of Aurobindo Bhavan, the university's administrative headquarters, and confined the vice chancellor to his room.
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