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The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on Thursday issued notification removing seven Chairpersons and Deans for not complying or refusing to implement the recent attendance system, triggering protests from teachers and students.
"This decision of removing professors has been taken in hurry and it is unfortunate that it happened in a manner where the Executive Committee gave power to the Vice Chancellor to make a decision overnight," Sucheta Mahajan, who has been replaced as Chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, told IANS.
According to some protesters who assembled near the Faculty Centre in the afternoon shouting anti-administration slogans, these decisions are cumulatively "aimed at destroying the values of equality and social justice" that have long formed the bedrock of this university.
JNUTA President Sonajharia Minz said that a confused and chaotic academic-administrative environment has been deliberately created, using a multi-pronged strategy of creating rifts inside centres and schools, attempting intimidation of teachers through various means and completely sabotaging the democratic elements of the decision-making processes of the university.
Mahajan said that a General Body Meeting scheduled for Friday will decide the future course of action over the replacement of the Chairpersons issue. "We will discuss it thoroughly and can then only take a decision over taking legal recourse," she said.
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