New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University might be one of the top universities in the country by the NIRF ranking, but the institution might not continue to hold on to that position for long.
According to the newly elected president of the JNU Teachers’ Association (JNUTA), Dr Milap Chand Sharma, the quality of education in the university will deteriorate in the next decade because of current Vice-Chancellor Dr Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar’s controversial recruitments recently.
“I have been a student at the university before I joined here as a faculty member. I have seen many Vice-Chancellors but none like him (Dr Kumar). JNU had a culture of providing 360° education. The Student-Faculty Committees decided on the curriculum. The students could come up to the teachers at any point to discuss their academic queries. We are losing that culture. We need to have a dialogue,” Dr Sharma was quoted as saying by EdexLive.
“The VC feels that the JNUTA and the students are disruptive to the administrative process because they protest. But that is not right. We protest when we feel something is wrong. If the administration feels they are on the right track why not have a discussion and try to convince us that they are right?” the JNUTA president asked.
The new JNUTA Executive Committee desperately wants a discussion with the VC to highlight the issues that the previous team had taken up.
“We have decided to write a letter to the VC telling him that we are the new JNUTA EC and we would like an audience with him. He has not invited any of the JNUTA ECs for the past three years. If he wants to talk to us then that’s great otherwise we will keep him updated with all our activities over email. We will have to protest to voice our demands if he won’t talk to us. Democratic voices are being silenced on this campus and we need to stand up against this,” Dr Sharma alleged.
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