Youth for Equality, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Journey of YFE....

Students, citizens and professionals of different shades were involved in various campaigns before the Youth For Equality appeared on the scene in May 2006. These campaigns were reform in education, justice for all, protest against the criminalization of politics, and campus oriented problems to make India vibrant. On April 4, 2006 a perfect storm was gathering in the student circle all over India when HRD Ministry, Government of India announced 27% OBC Reservation in Centrally funded educational institutions. The Youth For Equality formed and gradually the organization has taken shapes larger than the ambit of Reservation and challenged the reservation policy scientifically. Youth For Equality is an all India organization encompassing men and women of all walks of life irrespective of caste, creed, class, religion and region. It draws its strength from its large support base mainly from the youth and students of India along with all the responsible citizen of the country. The educated, sensible and law abiding citizens of India showing their unrestrained enthusiasm and support for Youth For Equality by each passing day.
We aim at Casteless society i.e. society where there is no discrimination on the basis of birth mark. Education for All with special emphasis on women and children education. Good Governance Sensitive, honest, transparent, pro-people governance. Employment opportunity for the all the needy people. The Gandhian model of employment, where a delicate balance of man and machine, must be followed as India is a populous country. Health for all in a healthy environment. Develop and consolidate a feeling of National Unity among people irrespective of religion, caste or province. Promote and nurture excellence to make India a superpower.

Major events that marked our presence:

April-May 2006- Month long protest and agitation. 13th May 2006 - MUMBAI: Peacefully protesting Students had beaten up by police....SHAME! SHAME! We all know what happened at Mumbai on 13th May. We saw it on our TV sets, read it in the papers, heard it on radio. We are all deeply anguished and our blood boiled when we saw scenes of how the Mumbai students were being beaten up. 13th May - In New Delhi few meters away from the Rashtrapati Bhawan and a stone throwing distance from the Prime Minister’s Office on 9th of May 2006 water cannon spread on the medical students with a speed prohibited by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and World Health Organization. In Mumbai, the city’s medical students sitting on a protest march at the road heading towards the Governor’s residence. On 12th of May 2006 they were beaten black and blue by policemen as if the medical students are dreaded criminal. The clear footage on the electronic media can make a country shame and can make one mistake that if they were watching the Tiananmen Square brutality live. The hunger strike has been joined by students of IIT, JNU and DU among others.
We were joined by various organizations and students all across India, and the movement against reservations and populist policies grew in strength with each passing day. 19th May – Huge rally organized by YFE in JNU. During the countrywide agitation the Government under pressure from students and people from all sections of society agreed to talk with the agitating students. First a three members committee comprising three senior cabinet ministers Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Shri P. Chidambaram and Shri Arjun Singh and then Dr. Manmohan Singh talked to the representatives of Youth For Equality. Youth For Equality representative placed the Charter of Demands before the Government. 22nd May - The Hon'ble Defense Minister in an official meeting assured that the general category seats in any particular institute shall not be reduced and quota shall be implemented in a phased manner as and when seats increase. He declined to address the main issue of formation of an expert commission for review of the whole reservation policy. 23rd May - The UPA government had a meeting with the left parties and a politically motivated press release issued. Which stated that the percentage of reservation for OBC was fixed at 27% and that it would be implemented from the academic session 2007 in one goes? 26th May - Negotiations held at the highest level with the Prime Minister who assured (verbally) that there would not be any reduction in the number of general category seats in each institute and reservation for OBCs in higher institutions would not be implemented till such increase in total seats was not carried out.. He also said that he would look into the setting up of the expert commission.
A purported, unsigned and undated statement was given to the students on behalf of the Government of India by the Health Secretary which did not address any of the demands of students and medicos. 27th May - Despite the assurances of the Prime Minister, the HRD Minister announced that the policy for reservation for OBCs in higher education etc would l be implemented w.e.f. academic year 2007 and would not be in graded manner. He declined the set up of the expert commission.

After this announcement by HRD Minister, the Government (i.e. Health Secretary) announced that he has written letters to some institutes to ascertain as to whether they can increase the seats so that general category seats were not reduced. This information was sought from these institutes till 15.6.2006.

29th May - The highest court of the Country intervened and directed the medicos to call of the strike. At the same time the Court candidly asked the Government: 1) What is the basis for the determination/classification as to who belongs to "Other Backward Class",2) The Modalities to be adopted for implementation of the policy in question.YFE, JNU started the historic hunger strike at the Admn Block and continued for 33 long days.
27th May 2006 – Huge YFE Rally at the Ram Leela Ground at New Delhi - Navjyot Singh Sidhu, Shiv Khera, Joginder Singh and Prof. P.V. Indiresan
addressed the gathering and ignited the passion in youth present from every part of India. It is from the platform of this rally several institutions of India announced to organize hunger strike in their respective institute. JNU and IIT-Delhi were prominent among others. 9th November 2006 – YFE Contested the JNU Student Union Elections - What kind of a nation disowns its own people? What kind of country decides that genius costs too much? That merit does not hold much water and that caste is the only and sole criteria to judge everything? JNU is considered as the bastion of left politics. But the left also shunned the CLASS and adopted CASTE as their identity to save their vote bank. Considering all the pros and cons we the Youth For Equality, JNU Chapter decided to contest the JNUSU election. The JNU election offered many surprises. The YFE maintained lead in all the four Central Penal posts viz. President (Sonika Tyagi), Vice-President (Brundaban Mishra), General Secretary (Upasana Dhankar) and Joint Secretary (Babita Sharma) till the near end of the counting when the left parties snatched the victory from the mouth of YFE. YFE lost the 2006 election with a narrow margin and waiting for another day to prevail. The Youth For Equality is honored and overwhelmed with the massive support of the JNU student.


5th February 2007 – YFE Contested 1 Seats in the BruhanMumbai Municipal Election - The Youth For Equality always believe in action. Sanjeet Shukla, a 23-year-old law student of Mithibai College and the sole candidate fielded by Youth For Equality (YFE) has become a hit with Sion voters for the BruhanMumbai Muncipal Election. The YFE’s popularity has the Congress worried. The party has decided to sideline its incumbent councilor, Babubhai Bhawanji, by fielding Upendra Doshi, general secretary of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, to take on YFE candidate Sanjeet Shukla. The outcome of the election was also impressive as the YFE secured 4th position and garnered good number of votes. 10th April 2007 – YFE Contested 3 Seats in the Delhi Municipal Election - Youth For Equality, during the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections tried to prove the point that “participation not refrainment” is the answer. A conscious decision was taken to contest the DMC election and three candidates were filed from three different constituencies. Dr. Sanjay Rajput contested from Kasturba Nagar (South Delhi), Pradeep Jha from Mukherjee Nagar(North Delhi) and Dr. P. Joshi from East-Rohtas Nager (Shahdara). Students from JNU, DU and AIIMS along with others campaigned vigorously for all the three candidates. In all the three constituencies YFE candidates surprised the political pandits when they secured 3rd position only after the two national parties BJP and Congress. Jan-Feb 2007 – YFE Convinced Leading Lawyers of India to argue against the OBC Quota - The Youth For Equality spearheaded widespread unrest across the country to oppose the illogical and unscientific OBC reservation policy. YFE representatives met nearly 700 dignitaries which includes members of Mandal Commission (2nd Backward Classes Commission) and Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1st Backward Classes Commission) to build up the cases against the OBC reservation policy of the Government. All the senior lawyers of legal profession which includes Senior Advocates Late L.M. Singhvi, Ad. Harish Shalve, Ad. Fali S. Nariman, Ad. Ashok Desai, Ad. P.P. Rao, Ad. Rajeev Dhawan, Ad. K.K. Venugopal, Ad. Mukul Rahtogi and Ad. Indu Malhotra to take the cases at the Supreme Court. 29th March 2007 – SC Stayed the OBC Reservation Bill - In a landmark Order the Hon’able Supreme Court on 29th of March 2007 stayed the OBC reservation act passed by the Parliament. The Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta delivered the verdict on the batch of petitions filed by Youth For Equality through various organizations and individuals challenging the decision as being ultra vires (unconstitutional). Keeping the petitions in mind, the Bench stated that Section 6 of the Constitution was not applicable since no data on OBCs has been collected in the last 76 years. 17th May 2007 – SC REFERRED THE OBC QUATA CASE TO LARGER BENCH - The Supreme Court on 17th of May 2006 referred the issue of 27% reservation for OBCs in central educational institutions to a larger Bench.

YFE’s rural contact programme covered 2000 villages to create awareness about the government’s deceit and deception. YFE’s struggle generated debate, tact, talk and financial engineering for the entire nation to increase educational infrastructure. Not a single medical or engineering seat has been increased in the history of independent India despite the large increase of student ratio. It is because of Youth For Equality there is now provision for massive increase of seats. YFE protest forced the national government to offer a whopping Rs. 224 Crores for JNU alone to increase infrastructure as recommended by Moily Committee. The YFE struggles successfully to CSIR-UGC Fellowship! And also exposed what the leftist have done in one year – beached the trust of the students and accepted lower amount and unacceptable date for the release of UGC sponsored Scholarship. The YFE protest prompted the UPA government (where left is also a part) established Knowledge Commission to recommend 1500 new colleges (professional/Vocational) and 300 new Universities to be established in India. The YFE’s agenda includes running schools for the deprived in DU and in Kanpur, Running of Hospitals in Delhi and in IIT- Kanpur, Enlightening the society in Mumbai through the initiative called Doctors For You, fighting the case against irrational reservation at the Supreme Court, making presentation in front of the Minority Commission for the education of the Minorities, taking part with the landless tribals in the Janadesh Rally now in Delhi, fighting castiesm inside the campus as well as at work place and endeavoring to end poverty by the year 2015 in collaboration with the Art of Living-United Nation Millennium Campaign.


Hemant Kumar Nidhi Singh
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Single Point Agenda of YFE can equal the fraudulent multi-points agenda of leftist, rightist or centrist!!

The saying of Faiz Ahmed Faiz “Pal bhar ko amar, pal bhar main dhuan”, which means ‘they can make a moment eternal, they can be smoke in a moment’ would have reminiscent to Youth For Equality! A single point agenda for which Youth For Equality is fighting – accused our critics! How naïve – they failed to see what the Single Point Agenda have done to the nation even if we accept for a moment, for the satisfaction of our critics, that we act as they accused!
  • The single point agenda generated debate, tact, talk and financial engineering for the entire nation to increase educational infrastructure.
  • Not a single medical or engineering seat has been increased in the history of independent India despite the large increase of student ratio. It is because of Youth For Equality there is now provision for massive increase of seats.
  • The single point agenda of YFE forced the national government to offer a whopping Rs. 224 Crores for JNU alone to increase infrastructure. Not a single pie the shameless leftist or the treacherous rightist or centrist ever generated for our own university.
  • The single point agenda proved without any doubt that what the Youth and Student of the nation can do once determined to do. The YFE restrained the entire political class inside the campus and outside to implement the irrational OBC reservation policy.
  • The single point agenda pushed the established leftist inside the campus to the margin and told them in action – look what we have done in one year – increase in CSIR-UGC Fellowship! And also exposed what the leftist have done in one year – beached the trust of the students and accepted lower amount and unacceptable date for the release of UGC sponsored Scholarship.
  • The protest of YFE prompted the UPA government (where left is also a part) established Knowledge Commission to recommend 1500 new colleges (professional/Vocational) and 300 new Universities to be established in India.
  • The single point agenda includes running schools for the deprived in DU and in Kanpur, Running of Hospitals in Delhi and in IIT- Kanpur, Enlightening the society in Mumbai through the initiative called Doctors For You, fighting the case against irrational reservation at the Supreme Court, making presentation in front of the Minority Commission for the education of the Minorities, taking part with the landless tribals in the Janadesh Rally now in Delhi, fighting castiesm inside the campus as well as at work place and endeavoring to end poverty by the year 2015 in collaboration with the Art of Living-United Nation Millennium Campaign.
Even a frail mind can say without any difficulty that the single point agenda of Youth For Equality can equal the fraudulent multi-points agenda of leftist, rightist or centrist– which are the same for every year. They know that YFE’s single agenda is worth following. Strangely the communists are criticizing the YFE terming as castiest force!! Who is supporting Caste based reservation?? Who is working overtime to justify caste as class?? And who is betraying the Marx – taking class struggle to caste struggle?? The answer is the very communist forces of the campus!!
Few questions come to the mind of an average JNUite – why Left supporting caste? Why the left supporting reservation for creamy layer?? Why Bengal is having 15% OBC reservation instead of the 27%?
The Gujrat pogrom was a blot on humanity, so was the 1984 Sikh riots, Godhra Train Burning, Nandigram Massacre and Naxalism supported by the communists. YFE advocates for strong action against the perpetrators of those inhuman acts and feel that punishment is the only way to contain such incident in the future. Where ever there is a politician involved in mass crime they are getting scot-free because of their political maneuverability. This criminalization of politics and politicization of criminals must be stopped so the riots, act of terrorism as well as state sponsored terrorism.
Everybody knows how Chandan Mitra behaves inside the Parliament! He was one of the four righteous persons along with P.C. Alexandar, Prabhat Joshi and Rahul Bajaj to vote against the OBC reservation bill. Where the left was then not to ask how he can defy BJP as he is a BJP sponsored MP!! For the information of leftist it must be told that Mr. Mitra was a leftist as his profile say in the website and YFE feel he is a real leftist supported by the BJP. We are proud that he has already addressed YFE rally in the past and silenced the left inside the campus. YFE is not responsible or have any control to Mr. Mitra’s every act or behavior as he is an editor! We bye the notion of Bengal Chief Minister on globalization and that does not mean we are agree with his Nandigram massacre.
How come the ABVP ask question to YFE?? What happened to their Ram Mandir issue despite spending and salivating six long years in the power?? What happened to Uniform Civil Code?? What happened to the Nuclear Deal as the Next Step to Strategic Partnership was only started by Mr. Jaswant Singh and Mr. Brajesh Mishra?? If you spit towards the sun it will drop in your face only! The sun will remain as powerful and unaffected as before! Better it is to respect the sun! YFE is more than what it appears to the left and right!!


Hemant Kumar Deepika Singh
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative



“Likewise when in the present system the majority of the deprived classes are being deprived from availing benefits of reservation in jobs and in education few castes accruing major percentages of the benefits meant for the entire deprived classes. And even within these few castes the entire benefit is being accrued by few families of those few castes. The rest of the population of those particular castes remained behind because the persons who once got the benefit of reservation improved their education, social and economic condition and become powerful compared to their fellow brethren so the other people who are still to get the benefits of reservation lagging behind in the competition with those who already availed the benefits. When some families are fully capable to avail the benefits of reservations and other concessions at the same time the rest of the population of the same castes become more backward. In this way the benefits of reservations and other concessions concentrated within few families only. These dynastic beneficiaries of reservations grossly hurt the welfare of other castes. Deprived persons and families become more deprived because of intra-competition within the same castes. The committee also recommends that the abovementioned reservation system to be operationalized by the government should not be made a permanent feature and there must be an evaluation of the effect of such system in every 5 years and if necessary changes must be made in the reservation system.” Report of the Social Justice Committee Constituted by the UP Government, 31.08.2001.

Monday, October 29, 2007

YFE Pamphlet 28.10.2007: Foreign Students Issues

“Jawaharlal Nehru University is not a foreign student friendly campus and survival is purely on the mercy of god” said a Middle East Student while talking about her experience as a foreign student in JNU.

‘I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.’ So said Seneca, the philosopher. India and Indians never shy of foreigners! They have always treated them with kindness. The philosophy ‘Atithi Devo Bhavah’ has never been an out of context phrase. Kings, Emperors, Sultans and national governments arranged foreign alike situation whenever there was an important foreign dignitary. King Harsh Vardhana himself presented all the Chinese comfort to Huen Tsang. These are the ingredients which attract foreigners to come to India and get imbibed with the civilization. The adverse climatic condition and over population has never been deterrence for the foreigners. Then what is the deterrence – if any? The answer is very strange and full of shame! Administrative apathy and insensitive civil society are the stuff to defame India through the plight of foreign students in JNU. The student union as well as student bodies are equally responsible for this.
Imagine – * there is no eatery, literally, for foreign student to eat inside the campus. There is total absence of food for these brand ambassadors. How can they survive? Does it mean they must live without fooding inside the campus to study? The Indian food in the hostel mess is really a tough option for them. Worse is outside eateries inside the campus. The results are – amoebiasis, stomach ache and digestive disorder which leads to may other related disease. The first few months of the foreign students is normally meant for spoiling their health and then correcting it. This is the way of JNU welcomes its scholars and students.

Why don’t we provide an intercontinental fooding stall for our foreign student friends??

  • No information is provided on behalf of the University for the Foreign Student to follow the Do’s and Don’ts. Jaundice, Malaria, Dengue and other dust-related diseases are foreign to these foreign students in their own country. In the absence of any information regarding these diseases the foreign students are vulnerable to these diseases as they do not take any precaution. Why the JNU administrations not giving any information leaflet to the foreign student mentioning regarding these deadly disease and how it can be avoided??
  • Indian system of publishing result is very notorious. Students across the country have to wait for months and years to know their result. JNU is following some strict regulation to publish result but not before waiting for at least a couple of months and here lays the problem. Indian student can wait not the foreigners! Their Visa expired immediately after the completion of their course! Their engagement in their home country is very much time bound and cannot wait for months. Their next academic engagement in their home country is suffering because of this delay. Cannot JNU issue provisional certificate immediately after the completion of the course to the foreign students?? Worse there is no information or initiative on the part of the University to extend the Visa. Foreign students have to travel from pillar to post to locate Foreign Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Home Ministry and Hospital to extend their Visa just to wait for the result!
  • Many foreign students are coming from poor countries and they are like very much the Indian students and not funded by rich sponsoring agencies. To help them out, the university has instituted a Fee Waiver Committee. But facing this committee on the part of any foreign student is a nightmare! The attitude and behavior of this committee is very much arrogant and they issue racial comments to the foreign students to discourage them to apply. The committees trademark suggestion and opinion is ‘why are you here when you cannot fund your education??’ Foreign Students prefer hardship to face this committee. JNU must be sensitized to this issue without any delay.
  • JNU signed seventy one (71) Memoranda Of Understanding with this much of foreign university. But the unwritten maxim for those students coming from these universities and from others is ‘while in JNU you are at your own’.
Who will take care of these unfortunate foreign students? Why they have been disowned by the very university which is recruiting them? This is the reason the international rank of JNU is controversial. Youth For Equality is committed to the valid concerns of foreign students. Let’s work together to make JNU a better place for everybody including the foreigners.

CENTRAL PANEL
BABITA SHARMA – PRESIDENT SUJEET KUMAR – VICE PRESIDENT
SWASTI RAO - GENERAL SECRETARY KUMAR ABHIJEET – JT. SECRETARY

PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT
SPEAKERS
1 – DR. BHURE LAL, MEMBER, UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (ALSO FORMER SECRETARY TO TWO FORMER PRIME MINISTERS OF INDIA)
2 – DR. (MS.) SUNITA NARAYAN, DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
VENUE: Godavari Mess, TIME: 9.30 PM

Hemant Kumar Neda Mirsamadi
Chief Campaign Coordinator YFE Representative

Sunday, October 28, 2007

YFE for Basic Students Problems: Pamphlet 27.10.2007

‘When you cannot convince, confuse them’! This is how the Indian political system is working and the Left parties of this campus mistaking that since the vibrant JNU campus is inside India, so vulnerable to the above maxim. They are practicing the same since long before every election with the lone aberration of last year when the Youth For Equality entered into the political fray. Since then the contour of political debate has taken towards a positive, constructive and student oriented angle! Even for issues of national importance the stand of Youth For Equality is actually making inroad towards the collective mind of the student community with sheer conviction.
Allegations have been leveled against the activities and achievements of Youth For Equality. The questions arises are what happened to the outgoing JNUSU office bearers? Who prevented them to take student friendly stand and agitation? Who opposed them not to demand increase in the number of CSIR and UGC scholarship for research scholars? And finally why they failed to convince the Vice-Chancellor of JNU to equalize the amount and date of release of the UGC sponsored Scholarship with that of the Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship to the student of JNU research scholar!
It is self evident that two lies cannot make or face one truth! Haqiqat wo khudnumai cheez hai, jisko na did-o-dad ki jarurat hoti hai, said Faiz Anwar Faiz, which means not exactly ‘truth does not require any audio-visualization’! And what is truth, the truth is CSIR and UGC are under Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) respectively not the other way around. Who rule to whom or in other words who direct whom to follow the instruction? It is the parent organizations DST and MHRD in this case who direct their offshoots CSIR and UGC. And the official orders have already been produced through different notices including the YFE pamphlet of 25.10.07 how the demands have been met due to the persuasion of Youth For Equality. What is new the left force discovered! A line in the saying revision of fellowship is under active consideration and decision will be notified. What else one expect from the CSIR and was not it an achievement to force CSIR to consider and take a decision on the increase of number and amount of fellowship! Youth For Equality with all concerned students wonder if CSIR can defy the DST order! Everybody knows how government machinery functions and how long it may take to come to a final decision.
But the primary question is what the left forces have done during the last year? Much have been said about Youth For Equality, its work, achievements, claims and counter claims. What the JNUSU have done during the last whole year! What are the achievements they can publish in front of JNU community after one year say one, two, three in no uncertain terms! It was a scandalous session 2006-2007 passed when not a single student welfare oriented activity was undertaken by the JNUSU! It was hypocrisy on the part of the JNUSU to choose to work for workers of the campus at the cost of the student issues. No one have the slightest doubt that workers issue is also important but at what cost and what was the mandate for. And most importantly what happened to the workers for whom the left forces worked for the whole year! The question the student community wants to ask the outgoing JNUSU office bearers was: tell us the student issues you have addressed during the last one year? What happened to the election pledge of last year where you promised the implementation of OBC reservation also? Why have you accepted less amount and nearest date of releasing the scholarship for the UGC scholarship?
‘Caesars’ death is more powerful than Caesars life’. Youth For Equality have done things beyond the reach and comprehension of left forces like – blockage of irrational implementation of OBC reservation, increase of scholarship for research scholar both in CSIR and UGC to mention a few.


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Hemant Kumar, Chief Campaign Coordinator Shikhar Jha, YFE representative

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JNU Student Union Election 2007: Agenda and Central Panel Candidates

The massive mandate given to Youth For Equality during the last year’s JNUSU election reposed a series of new responsibilities on the shoulder of Youth For Equality. During the last one year the growth of Youth For Equality inside the JNU campus was from strength to strength and visible every where. Youth For Equality fielded for all the four central panel posts of JNUSU. The contestants are as follows:


The Youth For Equality, JNU played vital role in the campus development activities and other student related issues. The struggle against the unequal scholarship provided by the JNU to its SCs/STs students and general category students was the most important one, which is still continue and to be continued till the objective of equal scholarship to SCs/STs and General Candidates is achieved.

The historic stay on 29 th of March 2007 to the OBC reservation by the Supreme Court of India was a product of Youth For Equality, JNU's handiwork in collaboration with other institutions of India.

JNU always take stand on issues of national as well as international importance. On the issue of Nuclear Deal with the US, the Youth For Equality, JNU Chapter believes that the deal is beneficial for the nation and should be inked with all safeguard. "As the world's largest democracy, India represents the hopes and aspirations of literally millions of people around the world, not just its own people, but beyond its own boundaries. A set of issues difficult for many in the Parliament of India to debate, and it certainly has been difficult for members of the Senate and House of Representatives to resolve".
The betrayal of left with whole JNU student community just happened before JNUSU election when they compromised with administration and did not utter a single word against administration, when It started giving UGC scholarship only from April 2007, however, in other central universities UGC scholarship is being implemented from 2006. It is youth for Equality who raise the voice and committed to make UGC Scholarship equal to Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship.


The other issues of Youth For Equality for the JNUSU election are:

* Revive democratic tradition of JNU and to restore the transparent system in administration and Education
* Implementation of UGC fellowship for MPhil and PhD students from 2005
* UGC scholarship must be equal to Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship for SC/ST, needs of all students are same so, why less amount for rest of students!
* More Students facilities in XI plan of JNU
* Students representation in Academic Council
* Accountable and responsible student union
* To restore the mechanism of justice and equal opportunity in university
* LAN and Wi-Fi facilities for entire campus
* 24 X 7 health facilities and full functional hospital
* Single window admission process and to availability of hostels at the time of admission
* Placement cells for each schools and a central placement cell must be established
* More efficient GSCASH, Grievance redress cell and to stop the politically motivated misuse these mechanism, which in practice by leftist against their opponent

Outside the campus in collaboration with its counterpart in AIIMS, DU, IIT and other medical colleges in Delhi and outside the JNU Youth For Equality played a vital role. YFE, JNU Chapter travelled Mumbai, Kanpur, Benaras, Bangalore and Bhopal to disseminate the ideas of Youth For Equality. This year's JNUSU election is going to be the election of YFE, we can say safely.

TOGETHER WE CAN, TOGETHER WE WILL!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

JNUSU 2007: PUBLIC MEETING

SPEAKERS

1 DR. HARIT CHATURVEDI, RAJIV GANDHI CANCER INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE, NEW DELHI
(ALSO FORMER PRESIDENT OF KANPUR
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND A KNOWN SOCIAL ACTIVIST)
2 - MRS. SARITA BRAR, ALL INDIA RADIO, NEW DELHI
(THE MOST FAMOUS FACE AND NEWS ANALYST OF AIR)

VENUE: PERIAR MESS
TIME: 9.15 PM



FRIENDS, AFTER ONE OF THE BIGGEST GATHERING AT THE TAPTI MESS ON 25TH OF OCTOBER WHERE M.L. LAHOTY, PROF. PV INDIRESAN AND PROF. J.S. CHOKKAR SPOKEN THEIR MIND AND IGNITED THE MIND OF THE YFE, THE SECOND MEETING MUST BE A LITTLE MORE IMPRESSIVE.

WITH ALL GOOD WISHES,

Friday, October 05, 2007

Gandhigiri: YFE join hands with Nandita Das and Shekhar Kapoor

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Rooting out corruption


Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Gandhi Jayanti in their own way by launching a non-political outfit called “Young Gandhians Against Corruption”. As the name suggests, the outfit will focus on rooting out corruption from the country.

“Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s thought and ideals, we want to root out corruption from the topmost level of the system. Corruption accentuates poverty, increases economic disparity, retards speedy development of deprived classes, undermines democracy and, worst of all, corrodes the moral fibre of the entire nation. The rampant and burgeoning corruption in government establishments cannot be controlled unless political corruption at the top is rooted out. If there is no corruption at the higher levels, dishonesty and fraud will automatically stop happening at the grassroots level,” said the convener of the outfit, Prakasha Chandra Sahoo, a senior research fellow at JNU.

The new outfit has expressed solidarity with the Gandhian Satyagraha Brigade, whose honorary general secretary Shambhu Dutt Sharma is a freedom fighter and veteran of the Quit India Movement.

“Mr. Sharma has been a mentor for our outfit. We will soon spread to other colleges and universities. We do not necessarily need a huge membership; instead we want mature members who understand Gandhi’s ideology and his principles,” added Prakasha.

A brand new mass media institute -- MassCoMedia -- equipped with state-of-the-art technology, non-linear editing suites, radio studio, photo studio and e-classrooms has come up in Sector 58 of Noida next door to Delhi. Some of the courses offered at MassCoMedia are: undergraduate and masters’ programmes in print and broadcast journalism, television production and direction, advertising and marketing, public relations, event management and media management; diploma an d certificate courses in animation, graphics, special effects, and web content management and short term programmes in fashion photography, photojournalism, camera handling and radio jockeying.

The programmes are for not just students but also professionals and freelancers who wish to upgrade their skills.

The Institute of Clinical Research (India) recently announced the establishment of its fifth campus at the Cavendish College in London. It also announced the launch of a new course -- a global post-graduate diploma in clinical research in association with the Institute of Clinical Research, United Kingdom.

The new course is “unique”, including regulations for clinical research in Europe, the US, Japan and India. This will help in producing professionals for the global market.

It will be a part-time course and the first batch will begin in February with 40 students.

In an effort to bring today’s youth closer to “Gandhigiri”, Youth for Equality has joined hands with ace filmmaker Shekhar Kapoor and talented actor Nandita Das.

YFE in collaboration with the Karadi Tales Company Private Limited has released an audio book version of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography titled “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”.

While Shekhar is Gandhi’s voice in the book, Nandita provides the narrative.

The audio book was released in Mumbai on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

“We plan to promote this venture among the youth. We believe this would be one of the best media to make today’s youth understand the concepts of peace and non violence,” said N. Agasti, a coordinator of the Delhi University chapter of YFE.

-- Parul Sharma