JNUSU stages protest in front of UGC office over entrance exams

The protesting students contended that the NEP 2020 will lead to the wide gap between those from the marginalised communities and others.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), along with other students’ organisations, staged a protest in front of the University Grants Commission (UGC) office against the alleged discrimination at the JNU entrance examinations (JNUEE), the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the Central Universities Common Entrance Test.

The demonstration was also joined by the students' organisations like the Students’ Federation of India, All India Students’ Association and Krantikari Yuva Sangathan.

The protesting students contended that the NEP 2020 will lead to the wide gap between those from the marginalised communities and others. While speaking about the same, Aishe Ghosh, president of the JNUSU, said, “The admission intake policies do not heed the social conditions in India. It dismisses the struggles of students from deprived backgrounds who do not get a fair start at education. Many first-generation learners and aspirants overcome several odds in pursuing higher education. Central universities should not be gatekeeping education, which is a right of all.”

The JNUSU had earlier also protested against viva-voce, that are been conducted for PhD admissions at the University.  At the protest, the students’ body also demanded that the JNU administration introduce deprivation points for PhD admissions. The JNU administration had earlier dismissed discrimination claims during the PhD admission process.
“The NEP 2020 betrays the very ethos of public-funded education in the country and poses the threat of widening the gap that exists between students from marginalised communities and others.What happened in JNU during the viva-voce was only another instance of a long-standing culture of bias against the disadvantages,” Ghosh said.

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