Controversy and Jawaharlal Nehru University
If you visit any University where Roads are surrounded by greenery on both the sides. Where you can find people in every nook and corner are exchanging ideas. Yes, you are at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Nowadays when you heard about Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) your mind filled with many issues. From the warcry of sedition charges to rising of #Meetoo movement. Many issues came into the limelight some by media or by the government. A university which is renounced for its excellent higher education that promises philosophically nuanced and socially pertinent education. Magnanimous campus, eatery points, political views and notable Alumni, recently NAAC praised and accredited JNU with A++ add more feathers in JNU’s head-gear. Why this university is in limelight since last two years and why people still left an indelible tag for the institute and its student?
Sedition controversy
On 9th February 2016, a cultural evening was organized by 10 students. According to India today, Anti-India slogans were raised at the protest meeting. After JNU administration ordered a disciplinary inquiry against the meeting in that Delhi police arrested the JNU student Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid on charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy under IPC section 124. Soon this matter gets hyped in media where the world is divided into two halves where one supports JNU. While other against it. But till now it’s not confirmed who raised the Anti-India slogans.
Attendance row
A recent issue comes into the limelight where the JNU administration made 75% attendance compulsory for the students. This move can be seen as a reason to cut the wings of the students who got time for the politics. While the students of left or right wing say that JNU administration creates this huddle just to stop the campus politics. While if the students who failed to attend class can easily be expelled with solid reasons. This is not the first University which is making this rule. Banaras Hindu University, Hyderabad University, and Delhi University also made 75% attendance compulsory.
Meetoo movement
In recent days a #meetoo movement is taking place in JNU. Where the women students are breaking the ice and expressing how she was harassed by the professor Joshi. Last week eight women filed police complaints against a professor in the School of Life sciences but it took many days to arrest the professor for speedy he got the bail. While the students are fighting for the safety of women. The administrations are favoring the professor. The students who are in the advanced degree program and departmental science labs are also suffering from the harassment.
The teacher hold's major portion of a researcher or postgraduate student in project's works grant funding, job recommendation, publications but if the professor starts using his power for a wrongful mean then there is a need for a war cry. The women who are in such a prestigious university is suffering from this harassment problem so what happens with others.
So if next time you meet a student who is from JNU doesn't doubt his/her patriotism. They are also patriot as any Indian is.