The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) has called for a boycott of the registration process on the very first day on Wednesday, January 1, 2020 and asked the vice-chancellor “to have a proper deliberation and work in the spirit of resolution” of issues.
The administration said the room with hiked rent would be levied from students during the process. JNUSU has also decided to “lock down” offices of the mess manager and cashier.
It is being around two month standoff going between the students and the administration over the issue of hostel fee hike.
The JNUSU said, the decision to continue the boycott would be taken in the Khand-wise general body meetings. The last day of registration is January 5, 2020.
The new fee of the room will be Rs 3,600 per semester for all students. BPL students have to pay Rs 1,800 per semester. For a double-seater room, the fee is halved in both cases respectively. Moreover, students are exempted from paying a medical fee of Rs 500 per semester.
Students registering for the forthcoming semester will not have to pay service or utility charges of their hostel fee “as of now” at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Registrar said on December 30, 2020.
However, students will have to pay the increased room rent and additional ‘medical fee’.
“The absence of an explicit statement on what happened to these charges is tantamount to being less than truthful. If not deliberately seeking to mislead students, then the administration is trying to gloss over the fact that it has been forced to concede one major demand of students,” the JNU Teachers’ Association said.
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