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| JU takes Human Rights lightly, admits 15 students for 30 seats | | Illegal arrangement becomes law | | ET Report
JAMMU, July 24: Jammu University seems to have made up its mind to give up teaching human rights to scholars, Army, police and paramilitary forces.
University administration has seemingly begun the process of winding up the post-graduate diploma course in Human Rights. None from the department of law which has been assigned task of admitting students to this course to officials of the university are seemingly serious towards admitting students to this course.
The department was started in the year 2006 as part of the Law School of Jammu University. Initially, the University created 30 seats for this course with 5 reserved for Army, Paramilitary Forces and Police. This was subsequently followed by admissions to this course in the Law School of Jammu University. Sources said that the course saw rush of students in the first year of its creation in the University.
They added that the problem began when Head of the Law School Late Prof. Lalita Parihar in year 2009 wrote a letter to the then Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Jammu University Prof. Varun Sahini seeking reduction in number of seats from 30 to 15. She had cited financial burden alongwith infrastructure shortage as the two reasons for seeking reduction in the number of seats.
The then Vice-Chancellor (VC) out of his habit of taking unilateral and administratively confusing decisions assented to the proposal of Head of Law School. This resulted in seats being reduced from 30 to 15 without the approval of university council. Sources said that after taking this unilateral decision, Sahini never bothered to seek its ratification from the University council. Hence, the seats were reduced in human rights course illegally from 30 to 15.
According to law department sources, the seats were reduced merely for the year 2009 and that too on temporary basis. Academic calendar published in the year 2010 clearly points out that seats in human rights course were 30 and not 15. A copy of the calendar is with Early Times. Sources stressed that 30 seats were shown in calendar but only 15 students were admitted and allowed to pursue course in Human Rights.
This was followed by a question being raised during the 72nd council meeting of the Jammu University about the need for defining seats reserved for Army, police and paramilitary forces. During this meeting, sources said that two seats were reserved each for paramilitary and police while Army was allotted one seat. But when admissions started, only 15 were filled, thus keeping 2009 temporary decision intact.
Sources further said that neither HOD of Law School nor other university officials bothered to look into the decision taken by the University council. They did not even consult the academic calendar but put up again 15 seats for admission. Ironically, University officials especially HOD Law School Prof. Arvind Jasrotia went by prevailing practice. Neither of the two bothered to look up the rule book.
Sources said that the negligence on the part of JU administration and slackness of law department has resulted in human rights course being reduced to laughing stock. They added that none bothered to find out what rule book was saying about the seats of human rights course. They further said that VC must look into this grave issue and seek clarification from the department of law for taking human rights course non-seriously. |
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