Following Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) boycott of the end-semester exams scheduled from December 12 on Wednesday, to protest against the hostel fee hike, the JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Friday have came forward in support of the boycott saying they could not participate in the ‘mockery’ made by the administration’s attempt at ‘farcical completion’ of the semester.
The JNU administration issued the first notice against the decision saying ‘Those skipping exams will lose their studentship’ and in the recent progress.
Meanwhile, JNU Administration issued its fifth warning notice saying students ‘would be failed’ or get ‘very poor grades’.
The Governing Body Meet (GBM) condemned the illegal attempts of the JNU administration to manufacture and notify a schedule for the end semester exams across the JNU centres and schools, just to bully teachers.
“The administration under the leadership of Vice-chancellor is looking to achieve a stupid completion of the semester with the sole intention of intimidating and penalizing thousands of students. This is unacceptable to the JNUTA and hence they are protesting with the students and boycotting the exams,” GBM added.
Amidst this, JNU registrar Pramod Kumar on Friday said, “JNU schools and centres will try everything to conduct end-semester exams, so students are advised to not fall prey to the misleading boycott calls taken by some raged students.”
“Those who do not write the end-semester exams will get very poor grades or fail in the respective courses and they may find the academic duration of their program much longer. Such students will not be qualified to be considered for ‘zero semesters’ unless they satisfy relevant eligibility criteria,” he added.