New Delhi: Protesting cuts in research funds and vivas of PhD scholars not being held despite thesis submission, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) has boycotted the convocation ceremony, reported The Indian Express.
Criticising JNU administration for its “brazen display of arrogance and insensitivity” JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh said that by holding a convocation on November 18, despite not conducting vivas for PhD students even after a year since thesis submission, the administration has “decided to insult the research scholar community.”
Dismissing the convocation as a “farce”, Ghosh said it was meant to “satisfy the egotistic departing of the Vice Chanellor.”
She further talked about the apathy towards students having to pay eight hundred rupees for an online session to receive an online degree and the VC’s attempt to “jeopardise their research.”
“The university has cut funds for journals, bungled recruitment and dismantled research,” she added.
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