This fight took place during a meeting at the Sabarmati Dhaba on the campus. The meeting was about picking members for the Election Commission for the 2024 JNUSU elections. The Left group, DSF, said ABVP students disrupted the meeting by causing trouble and not letting it happen peacefully.

Videos on social media showed students arguing loudly, and security had to come in to calm things down.

The DSF accused ABVP of working with the administration to stop the meeting from happening. They said it was an attempt to stop the fair process of elections.

The Students’ Federation of India said ABVP students attacked the JNUSU president, Aishe Ghosh.

ABVP said it was actually the Left group who started the fight. They said Left students tried to disturb the meeting because they didn’t want it to happen. ABVP said they tried to stop the disruptions, but it led to a fight.

The situation got worse as ABVP accused the Left group of starting trouble after they couldn’t stop the meeting.

A lot of students had come to Sabarmati Dhaba for the meeting. Earlier in the day, enough students had agreed to have the meeting, so it could start.

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M. Jagdish Kumar, The VC of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday told Press Trust of India(PTI) that varsity has bagged a project on COVID-19 research from BIRAC, a public sector enterprise set up by the Department of Biotechnology.

The Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) gave permission to JNU to develop a low-cost portable microfluidic embedded on chip RT-PCR and micro electrode array coupled point-of care optoelectronic device for large-scale screening of emerging viral disease like SARS-CoV-2, the VC said.

At present, the detection of the Corona virus is being done by Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) by using a real-time PCR machine. It’s very accurate for detecting Corona virus. But this technology is expensive, requires high-end laboratory-based equipment and is time-consuming. Expert personnel are also needed to operate the instrument and perform the testing in the laboratory. Thus, the capacity of sample handling per day is limited, he said.

He said that to overcome these drawbacks, A team led by Dr Jayadeep Bhattacharya from the School of Biotechnology, JNU, has designed a chip-based low-cost portable spatial RT-PCR.

Our technology is expected to cost Rs 60,000-1 lakh as compared to 10-15 lakh required for conventional real-time PCR, JNU VC said.

The JNU has already filed an Indian Patent application on this technology. Our technology can complete the testing in about 50 minutes as compared to 120-180 minutes required for conventional real-time PCR, he added.

He also said that the prototype testing device will be available very soon for demonstration.

The team working on the device consists of scientists from JNU (Dr. Jaydeep Bhattacharya, Dr. Rupesh Chaturvedi and Dr. Ravi Tandon), Amity University, Gurgaon (Dr. Ranjita Ghosh Moulick), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Kolkata (Dr. Souvik Pal and Dr. Subrata Sarkar) and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi (Dr. Sameer Gulati), he said.

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As per the revised calendar issued by JNU, students will be allowed to return to campus by June end. The winter semester classes are set to resume between June 25 to June 30.Currently, Online Classes and Teacher training learning programmes are conducted by the University, along with open-to-all lectures on the subject of coronavirus.

Winter semester will be held till July 31, which includes semester exams and results as well. For the monsoon semester, provisional registration (for enrolled students) will begin from July 25. Classes will begin from August 31 for the enrolled students.

According to the UGC guidelines, the university has provided a window where students can submit their thesis and dissertations. For Mphil, Mtech and PhD students, the thesis Registration deadline has been extended till December 31st.

Admission process will begin from August 1 and classes from September 1, but further details regarding this have not been shared yet. The National Testing Agency (NTA), which is the exam conducting body, has kept the application link open for entrance exams for JNU – JNUEE.

On Wednesday, JMI held its Academic Council (AC) meeting on Google Meet. This was attended by Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar, Dean’s and other members of the council. They have decided to adopt UGC’s guidelines. The guidelines said that the Semester will begin in August for already enrolled students and For Freshers, it will begin in September.

“Examination for only final semester/year students will be held offline between July 1 to July 31 in the university. Students are requested to submit online examination forms as early as possible,” the varsity said.

Online classes will take place till 31st May, which were earlier scheduled to be finished by April 30. Summer vacations will start from June 15 and continue till June 30, it said. Last day to submit assignments has been extended to June 5 and teachers are requested to upload internal assessment marks by June 15 on the website of the Controller of examinations of the University.

The last date to submit online application forms for the session 2020-21 has been extended to May 31. Entrance test will take place in August.

Students of Delhi University are also eagerly waiting for guidelines by the University.

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JNUSU claims that nearly 87,000 has been spent alone on the flight tickets for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The administration spent Rs 2.3 lakhs on Sri Sri’s programme and Rs 1.19 lakh for hosting Sadhguru in JNU under the budget head “Annual Day Celebration”. RTI has been filed by JNUSU President N Sai Balaji that showed amounts spent by the JNU VC and his associates on these events. This is followed by calling two days strike by student ,union at JNU on 8th and 9^th Jan. “We have called the strike demanding the removal of the VC for financial misappropriation,” Balaji said.

The student’s body claims about the diplomatic nature of the institute were at one end the library’s funding is being reduced by nearly 80% and JNU’s vice-chancellor had denied registration to a visually challenge student of the center for Japanese Studies, Munesh, who was failed due to lack of facilities as the UGC doesn’t have enough funds. We believe he’s played a massive role in corruption and has been diverting money meant for seminars, conferences and academic engagements for the construction of statues in campus and for the renovation of homes and officers of senior officials,” Balaji said.

The students union was surprised by the fact that ONGC which is a science and technology-based company spent 8.3 lakhs additionally over the 2.3 lakhs spent by JNU administration for Sri Sri programme.

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According to JNUSU it was the meeting, “where the dubious proposal of online entrance examination” was to be imposed. They allegedly stated that “the online entrance examination is a policy intended to destroy, dismantle and shut down JNU. Last year’s admission data with details of reservation are also being withheld by the vice-chancellor”, claiming that he seeks one timetable, one syllabus and one system for JNU. The message circulated by the JNUSU appealing the students to participate in the strike read, “We cannot allow JNU VC to destroy JNU. Let’s stand united and resist the Draconian move.” N Sai Balaji, JNUSU president added that the VC “did not even bother to invite the office bearers” which makes it clear that “the administration plans to push regressive anti-student policies on us.”
The university administration responded to these allegations in a press note by saying that the office bearers of JNUSU are not the members of academic council and remain only special invitees to such meetings.

By Sonali Bangia – DU Times

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