The Arts Faculty Students' Union (AFSU) of Jadavpur University today decided to step up the agitation against the West Bengal Universities and Colleges (Administration and Regulation) Bill 2017.
The Arts Faculty Students' Union (AFSU) of Jadavpur University today decided to step up the agitation against the West Bengal Universities and Colleges (Administration and Regulation) Bill 2017.
"We will organise a bigger general body meeting consisting all the students' union representatives - the AFSU, FETSU (Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students' Union) and AISA (All India Students' Union) - where we will chart out a bigger movement," AFSU Chairperson Somashree Choudhury said after the AFSU members discussed modalities of future agitation at a general body meeting in the university campus.
The West Bengal Universities & Colleges
(Administration and Regulation) Bill-2017, would enable the state government to have the power to prescribe rules and procedures for conducting students body or union election. It was passed in the Assembly in February this year.
JU Students Union said this proposed apolitical student council model, on the lines of St Xavier's College, is undemocratic and unacceptable."
The Students' Federation of India will also take out a rally tomorrow from Dhakuria to Jadavpur 8B bus stand, near the JU main gate, in protest against, "The move to interfere in the democratic right of students and state government's decision to interfere in students' union elections," she said.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Suranjan Das said, "We have already informed the students we will communicate their sentiments on the said Bill to the Higher Education Department but only within the parameters of law."
Das and other EC members including the four Dean of students were confined in the university board meeting for nearly 36 hours last week by the agitating students who were demanding the university take a resolution terming the Bill as 'undemocratic and unacceptable.'
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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