New Delhi, Nov. 20 (IANS): A Ministry of Human Resource Development committee has sought three days' time to decide on the demands of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) after the two sides met at Shastri Bhawan on Wednesday morning.
"The committee has assured us of positive steps and has also said it can not enforce its observation on the university administration. It has asked for three days to discuss the matter with the university," said Satish Chandra Yadav, JNUSU General Secretary.
Yadav said for these three days, JNUSU would continue its protest, which would be called off only when the administration announces a complete rollback of the proposed fee hike.
The next meeting between the two sides is expected on Friday on the JNU campus, and by then the JNUSU will be submitting their demands to the ministry, which will then put the demands before the JNU administration.
Meanwhile, the HRD Ministry said its appeal to the students to restore normalcy in the varsity has been received positively.
"The committee appealed to the students to restore normalcy on the campus immediately for which the students have responded positively," the Ministry of Human Resource Development tweeted on Wednesday after the meeting.
The students have demanded a complete rollback of the proposed hike in hostel fees, along with reconvening of the Inter-Hall Administration meeting that had passed the proposed fee hike on October 28.
"We have demanded that the IHA meeting that passed fee hike should be reconvened and JNUSU must be made part of it so that we can present the students' side on the fee hike," Yadav said.
The JNUSU also demanded resignation of the Vice-Chancellor, claiming he had lost faith of students and the teachers.
"If he still has a problem in clearing our demands, then he must resign," Yadav added.
Visually impaired JNU students accuse police of detaining them
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Visually-impaired students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) protest against the lathi charge by Delhi Police during their recent march towards Parliament pressing for their demands, at Delhi Police Headquarters in New Delhi, on Wednesday. (PTI)[/caption]
The visually impaired students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday accused the Delhi Police of illegally detaining them when they were on the way to new Police Headquarters at Jai Singh Road here. However, the Delhi police has denied the allegation, saying the students walked into the police station to handover a memorandum.
"The bus carrying blind students who were going to protest at the Delhi Commissioner office has been illegally stopped by Delhi Police," a student on the bus carrying visually challenged students alleged.
However, the Delhi Police said that this was a false claim and the students had themselves walked into the Vasant Kunj police station to handover a memorandum to the Station Head Officer on the alleged police action over the agitating students on Monday.
"We have not detained any student, they have come themselves with a memorandum," said an officer privy to the case.
The students were en route to the office of Delhi police commissioner in new police headquarters, to protest against an alleged police action on Monday over some visually challenged students who were part of the massive march to Parliament from the JNU, led by the JNUSU.
The march was stopped at Jor Bagh by over a thousand policemen and an almost similar number of paramilitary forces. It was during this that the students alleged that they were thrashed badly by the Delhi Police.
