`Uncle students` get feel of Discipline: JNU makes 75% attendance mandatory

New Delhi, February 18: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has issued a notification which makes attendance of the students 75 % mandatory. About 75 percent attendance in a semester, to be registered at the respective departments, has been made compulsory for research students as well.

After issuing the notification, JNU said, “Compulsory classroom attendance is a prerequisite to maintaining a work ethic. The university had been mulling over reports about a good number of research scholars illegally using hostel facilities as mere free accommodations in south Delhi, while doing jobs in the city, which, of course, is the reason why such students always submit their dissertations very late. One may disagree over the percentage of such students in the campus but that these students do exist is a harsh truth that the administration could ignore only at its peril.”

However, on the notification of 75 % compulsory attendance in the classroom, student left wing held protests against the decision and demanded to scrap it. This decision is a major blow to those Uncle Students who have made JNU as their ‘Adda’ for the activities other than studying.

Thursday night students at JNU furiously started the ruckus. The students demanding a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor surrounded the administrative block created a human chain and surrounded the administrative section. Furious students had allegedly hostage Chintamanee Mohapatra and Rana Pratap Singh, who were present in the administrative building.

Also, the students are demanding change in the decision making mandatory 75% attendance compulsory during an academic session for scholarship and fellowship from University administration. Students say that this new circular is not in the interest of the students.

Importantly, the decision is a lesson for those students like Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar who have made JNU their second home and they have no academic progress with zero attendance. Kumar was directly involved in organising the event and also raised anti-national slogans. Sedition charges were slapped on him and he was arrested. And the main seed for this Khalid was the one who organized the event against whom sedition charges were filed.

The university administration had issued a letter, which stated that according to the order of the court, the students cannot perform within a hundred meters of the administrative building and the action of the police can be taken even after breaking the order.

JNU has been an education hub always remains in the headline, not for the positive causes but the anti-national activities. These include the Beef Festival, Mahishasur, celebrating Afzal Guru's anniversary and calling out anti-India slogans.