NUJS Kolkata chancellor and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has confirmed his selection of Prof NK Chakrabarti as his formal choice to be the next vice chancellor (VC) to lead NUJS Kolkata, according to an email sent internally by the Student Juridical Association (SJA) to students.
Once the NUJS Executive Council meets again it can then discuss and confirm his appointment. This will probably happen after the university reopens from holidays.
Chakrabarti is currently director of KIIT School of Law in Bhubaneswar, Odisha (at least since 2013, from what we can parse from his profile and KIIT’s website). He holds a PhD in criminal justice. According to the website, he has previously worked as a professor at Calcutta University, and as adjunct professor at IIT Kharagpur (full KIIT profile copy below).
The other three contenders listed for the CJI to choose between after the search process were Prof VC Vivekanandan, and Prof SD Sharma.
If his appointment proceeds smoothly, this would mark 15 months since previous VC Ishwara Bhat had resigned and been replaced by interim government-appointed VC Amit Talukdar, as the formal re-appointments process crawled on, with a request for applicants only issued by November 2018.
When asked for a formal comment from the SJA, an office bearer responded with: “Saying anything at this stage would be speculative.”
While the NUJS’ governing act is not entirely clear whether the EC can theoretically veto the Chancellor/CJI’s decision (it recommends that the two work “in consultation”), in practice it seems unlikely that the EC would want to butt heads with the CJI.
KIIT full profile (sic, etc)
Prof Chakrabarti currently working as Director, School of Law, KIIT Deemed to be University obtained his PhD in “Probation in the administration of Criminal Justice in West Bengal: A Critical Appraisal of the system.” Prof Chakrabarti with a teaching experience of 32 years ,also worked as a Professor in Calcutta University, as an adjunct Professor in IIT , khragpur. He has 25 years of research experience and successfully guided 21 PhD scholars. Prof Chakrabarti worked as Joint Co-coordinator, Calcutta Task Force on Govt. of India sponsored Project Reformulation of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act during 1992-93.with National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. He has worked as Principal Investigator in UGC-UPE Major Research Project on “Use of Forensic Science in the Administration of Justice in India: A Futuristic Study” in the University of Calcutta from September 2007 to March 2013He has worked as Project Director in ICSSR project on “People’s Perception of Police-Public Relations in the District Capitals of the North Eastern States of India: A Study in Perspective of Community Policing” during 2013-2015. Prof Chkrabarti has 9 books, 3 book reviews and 83 research publication to his credit. Prof Chakrabarti is a member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reforms, London.(ISSN 2025-5183) , member of Advisory Board, Indian Human Rights Law Review(ISSN .2230-7036). Prof Chakrabarti has Participated in Global Law Deans Forum on “Developing Approaches and Standa rds rd for a Global Legal Education” hosted by I E University, Madrid , Spain during 25th -26th October,2015 , and Annual Meeting of International association of Law Schools at Segovia , Spain, during 27th – 29th October,2015. Prof Chakrabarti also went for Research Visit at Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law at Freiburg, Germany in 2017 & 2018. He aalso Delivered a Lecture in the 16th Asian Certificate Course on Victimology, Victim Justice and Victim Assistance at City University, Hong Cong on 5th June 2018. (Indian Society of Victimology in its 10th Biannial Conferrence held at Nirma University, Ahmedabad on 23rd February 2017, conferred Professor K. Chockalingam Award 2017 to Prof Chakrabarti for his contribution in the field of Victimology. Prof Chakrabarti also was awarded Research Fellowship two consecutive years 2017 (June) & 2018 by Max Planck Society, Germany to do a research project on “Universalization of Criminal Jurisdiction in Domestic Legislations” at Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, June 13th to 12th July 2018
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Just so Justice league can consolidate itself further before new VC takes charge. And try their best to get students to protest against NKC (only a faint hope are present).
There is a limit to this drama.
Don't trouble your puny brains that have access to very little information so much.
books.google.com.au/books?id=6XIpAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Nirmal+Kanti+Chakrabarti%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ-Mzi5NfiAhVROisKHehGBpMQ6AEIMTAC
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Quote:www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/private-tuition-slap-for-two-university-teachers/cid/1119477
It's our humble request, kindly stop spreading misinformation through your flawed arguments for defending the appointment of NKC as our next VC.
There is no need for you to prove that NKC is better than VCV or Mr Sharma. Students and alumni already know who is better candidates among three.
I am very disappointed that the students did not pre-emptively object to the decision, as it was well known that the TMC was pushing for NKC . Knowing Prof Vivekanandan, he will feel insulted and prefer to apply to another NLU instead.
However, his name was only nominated by Ranbir Singh. Neither did he apply himself nor made any effort towards getting the job. He has his eyes solely on NLUD.
Also it is super easy to type from far away after you have a comfortable cushioned job, about the need for current students, for many of whom employment is a serious concern, to push back against political forces. Most of the alumni only know how to pass comments but do not come forward to actually provide any assistance. The situation is much worse in the university right now and we do not want NUJS to become a battlefield like Jadvapur University now.
1. Prof VCV was a very friendly and popular Dean, who took many initiatives like curriculum reform and collaboration with GWU law school (which is still going strong). He is fondly remembered. Ours is a small, niche law school for BTech grads. We do not aspire to be like NLUs. He understood our needs very well.
2. The RGSOIPL community was hoping that Prof VCV would head to NUJS, as it would make it easier for him to give guest lectures at KGP. We are thus extremely disappointed that Prof VCV has not been chosen.
3. We are further disappointed at the continued marginalisation of IP scholarship. We fail to understand why VCs of law schools must always be experts in human rights, constitutional law, criminology etc. IP law should be treated as a major branch of law in itself deserving equal respect. We strongly oppose this unofficial caste system.
4. Finally, please note that Prof NKC was not appointed as an "adjunct professor" at RGSOIPL, as no such designation exists. Academicians and practitioners have often visit for guest lectures, including Prof NKC, but this does not amount to a formal designation of adjunct professor.
iti.beta.kiit.ac.in/profiles/prof-dr-n-k-chakrabarti/
1. He claims to have published 55 articles. Why is not even one listed? How many of these are in peer reviewed journals of repute?
2. What does "research visit" to Max Planck mean? Did he just go to use the library or was he a research fellow?
3. Why are the dates of the Max Planck visit 2017 and 2018 in one place, and 2016 in another?
4. He is bio claims he was a reader at CU, then "adjunct prof" at IIT, then promoted to professor at CU. Can we then assume that "adjunct prof" at IIT is lower than professor rank at IIT and certainly lower than Dean rank, which Vivekanandan held?
I think it's important to highlight that albeit majority of top NLUs like NUJS, GNLU etc. being plagued by maladministration for quite some time now, they have been doing much better on some essential fronts like mooting, recruitment etc. than other universities that claim to have world class faculty and research.
Essentially, it's the student quality and except in cases of drastic policy changes related to admissions, these universities will continue to attract quality talent from across the country.
It is in fact the alumni who are too busy counting the notes from their glorified internships who have no time to help with things happening in their Alma mater and instead choose to simply pass comments from afar.
The present SJA may keep ignoring alumni, but we are taking matters into our own hands... we cannot have this man sit in the same chair as legendary academicians like Menon, Chimni and MP Singh... even PIB had decent academic credentials.
2. When a report in the Telegraph says that NKC was found prima facie to engage in serious misconduct (lying about his CV and forcing students tp take private tuition from him) it must be asked how such a person can succeed the likes of Madhava Menon and MP Singh.
3. As for Rather Particular, you do not need NKC to discipline him. Anyone can file a complaint under the new UGC plagiarism rules (which apply retrospectively) and seek his dismissal. The question to ask is why the SJA is silent. Why Arjun Agarwal writes articles attacking faculty members but is silent on him. If this was NLSIU or NALSAR, the students would have complained.
www.jgls.edu.in/nemika-jha/
english.kolkata24x7.com/biswa-bangla-a-company-owned-by-abhishek-banerjee-mukul.html/
m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/ed+times-epaper-edtimes/kiit+university+clashes+fight+erupts+between+engineering+law+students+section+144+imposed-newsid-102396050
Garga Chatterjee).
The whole appointment stinks of [...]. Taluk was placed by the TMC for 1.5 years. The VC appointment committee was set up with an ad hoc CJ from Bengal, just before the appointment of Justice Radhakrishnan (who was also NALSAR Chancellor). Then, the selection process was deadlocked for 7 months as the TMC govt (through its two men on the panel) refused to accept Justice Mishra's recommendation of VCV. In the end, Justice Mishra gave up and did not find it worth is time to fight over it. In the meantime, KIIT awarded an honorary doctorate to Mamata, while NKC tweeted in her favour.
Secondly, if Arun Mishra - an SC judge- did infact push so hard for VCV - i cant imagine a world where a sitting HC judge and an AG is going to oppose it so hard and refuse to accept it.
this must be some clueless troll from the justice league.
And 3 names were sent. Why did the CJI chose NKC? Is CJI also beholden to Mamata?
go fight your battles yourself in the open. dont expect the students to support them.
best,
a disgruntled student who supported you in the past
rmlnlu.ac.in/pdf/Notice%20_1-9march18.pdf
1. If they are directly given professor rank --- what MP Singh did to attract Sudhir, Manoj Sinha and Shamnad (who was still a PhD student).
2. If they are given are given some sort of shared appointment, e.g. a permanent faculty at NLUD or JGLS, but visiting professor at NUJS.
3. Their hometown is Kolkata( (the reason why some NLU alumni already teach at NUJS).
No faculty wants to come to NUJS because of the arbitrary manner in which they are treated, assigned subjects that they are not interested to teach and the domination of a certain group of faculty members in every single aspect of the university's functioning. It is not a university as such anymore unfortunately, only a zone of ego clashes which the alumni are well aware of.
**SJA never bothered to take GB Members along while they were taking crucial decisions. GB Members were not informed about anything until fiasco happend after their impractical decisions. Even SJA Administrative/Press Secretary were not aware about the decisions taken by the SJA 2018-19. Only 2 person can't take decision as per their sweet will.
GB Members got to know about the Search Committee members in September. SJA didn't even bothered to inform GB Members that State Government is delaying the VC Selection Process. So you can't blame GB Members for information asymmetry.
If you remember during 2017-18, majority of GB Members used to turnup for the GB Meeting because they were informed about each and every decisions of the SJA.
The student are there to study, plan their career and graduate. Not to deal with your incessant faculty ego fights and bullshits. You couldn't even give them that and blame them for not doing enough for the institution? NUJS would have been much better off without this current set of faculty.
The acting registrar even refused to disburse funds for the mess. Students were literally made to eat watery dal and chawal with even no aachar available on some days. Nobody protested against that since students don't end up paying their own fees. The students are also negligent and complicit in the state of the university in some part.
The next SJA was also incredibly opaque as well with both the President and VP busy displaying power (eg President dominated the entire SJA narrative and VP prided herself to be the only one that Taluk would listen to). The rest of the members in SJA had little to no say and were not allowed to communicate with the GB about how the SJA was proceeding. This left the GB which had once rallied behind SJA to drive PIB out crestfallen and uncaring about how things shaped out. No wonder both of the SJA stalwarts decided to step down this time as the GB has seen through their BS.
"Anyone can fool all the GB Members some of the time, but anyone can't fool all the GB Members all the time".
1. Justice and Injustice League are locked in a mortal combat.
2. The outgoing SJA leadership is under fire (rightly or wrongly) and their opponents are going for the jugular.
3. Certain faculty members across both the camps are feeding false, misleading and truncated information to students and alumni because both Justice and Injustice Leagues actually profit if NUJS stays in a state of limbo.
4. Lord Taluk despite protestations doesn't mind staying on. Sensational doesn't want to leave. State patrons to both would love to have them stay on. Indefinitely. It is obvious that present state interests are better served by Lord Taluk and Sensational.
5. While no particular group has secured a decisive edge, Justice League has gained a foothold in key governing structures long denied by PIB. Injustice League is down but not entirely out. With Sensational help and friends elsewhere they have been able to frustrate EC instituted inquiries. Justice League also wouldn't want an exhumation of the Justice PN Sinha Inquiry Report among other things.
I find it strange that Injustice League didn't aggressively use the Justice PN Sinha Report and Justice Shyamal Sen opinion against key members of the Justice League (instead choosing to drone on rather particular plagiarism)? Similarly, it is hard to believe that Justice League haven't been able to get their dear Lord Taluk to complete the inquiries, which would have had disastrous consequences for Injustice League. One actually fled even before the inquiries started.
Have we cared to think why the faculty conduct their fights with kid gloves while reserving the killing blows for students?
6. There are interested outsiders who would love to rule via proxy. The "cooler"ones tweet, lobby in the shadows with the powers that be, get a gaggle of vocal alumni to fire up their juniors, peddle victim stories and other such tricks. The not so cooler ones do things with less class. The simple truth is no one becomes a VC without lobbying and a trade in favours at the expense of students.
VCV lobbyists are self-styled progressives and treat NKC with disdain as expected of elitists. I am not suggesting that NKC is actually better. But he is wronged due to his low glamour quotient. Both appear to be paper tigers. Would have been great had the search committee actually adopted the suggestions made by the SJA.
Remember this well - The path to hell is paved with good intentions. I am not belittling our protests. But are we sure that protesting students are not being used as a pawn in a dangerous game? Not advocating we sit out but reality check, please? If NKC is really that incompetent, he will screw up soon and then suffer a quick exit. We just need to keep a close watch. And if VCV really loves us (at least as much as the protesting students think he does) then he wouldn't mind getting a slightly delayed (choose colour wisely) carpet welcome.
6. Students are raw energy. A force of good that can also be misguided into authoring disasters. Almost everyone in the faculty, administration, governing bodies etc will love to see SJA/student power self-destruct or lose credibility. That will finally leave the field open for all of them to plunder crazy. Our crusade to get a better VC has already been hijacked.
Get smart. Lose ego. And truly listen to peers we disagree with. We are living (in) the university right now. Not the overrated alumni (broadly speaking). We may consult the latter. But we don't need their concurrence. We have our skin in this game of chairs. Alumni only have interests to secure (at least right now). There will be individual exceptions though.
7. PIB got a second term despite change.org and no confidence petitions. Sham moves engineered by PIB-slighted faculty and their alumni acolytes during PIB 1st term were fated to fail. The gaggle has reappeared now. Students are not central to their designs. We are pawns, useful idiots, the necessary pain to suffer for greater private gains later (for them). I would very much welcome if they stop doing things for us. Is it too disrespectful to ask them to do or not do things with us? Please take your proxy battles somewhere else.
8. SJA and students (also many in the alumni) overestimate our capacities. Not to belittle our and SJA efforts in evicting PIB but we now know that his state patrons wanted him gone and we unwittingly let in their agents Lord Taluk and Sensational who really didn't have to try very hard at divide-and-rule. I fear that our misguided (maybe deliberately guided by some in the faculty) protests for VCV and against NKC is putting us on a collision course with the selection committee members and other powerful folks.
I am not suggesting that we quietly accept things. Powerful adversaries needn't be taken head on. We prepare and strike when they are least prepared. Right now the best we can get is a deadlock and the worst (more likely) is a severe crackdown. Remember NUSRL Ranchi? Do we really want to invite that experience and its aftermath? Can we not get smarter? History doesn't auto-repeat. Our actions/omissions cause it to run in a loop.
9. Can we therefore deny further fuel to warring faculty, alumni upstarts (please concentrate on your start-ups), bleeding hearts, concerned academics, self-styled cool dudes, legends and others in the gaggle? That starts with us getting our own house in order.
Whether NKC or VCV, do we know what we (all) need from scholarship, faculty recruitment, hostel accommodation, campus security, transparency, staffing, alumni outreach, fundraising, research etc policies? Are we sure that our "dream" VC will not end up telling us "in your dreams" while making his next move on our fees? VCs have never been and cannot be silver bullets.
10. If there is one thing that the faculty here have taught us is that we shouldn't be them in any and every aspect. Can we therefore stop our internal strife and focus our energies in making lemonades out of the lemon (whatever variety) we are getting?
I would love to get some advice from law students and other readers who obviously have a lot more insight about the institution and its present conditions than I do.
1. If your main interest is getting placed in a corporate law firm, consider placing NUJS after NLSIU. The placements are very good (as they are student driven) and there is a culture of wanting to work for a law firm.
2. If your main interest is judicial services and UPSC, consider placing NLUD after NLSIU. You can attend coaching classes on weekends.
3. If your main interest is human rights activist/academics/alternative careers, consider placing NALSAR after NLSIU. You can see from the Sadhguru incident that NALSAR has a strong left-wing and critical orientation.
4. If your main interest is getting taught by good faculty, consider placing NLUD and JGLS after NLSIU.
About 4, I don't really know. A lot have been said in this forum about faculty quality at NLUD and JGLS, but I am yet to see their graduates markedly differ in quality from those of other NLUs. Even assuming that JGLS does not get as many good quality students, that cannot hold true for NLUD. So the faculty there might have been doing great research, but I doubt how much difference they have been making in the classroom compared to other NLUs. There are good people at NLUD of course. As there are in other NLUs too.
While an NLU/foreign degree does not guarantee a good teacher, it increases the probability of it and is undoubtedly a consideration that law aspirants have. I wish LI gets the figures out.
This post is not meant to criticise NKC or the body appointing him, because does have a formidable CV and experience by his side, which is why the appointment.
In 2017, I was under the impression that NUJS was a good national law school and the couse, MA in Business Laws helped me gain an insight into the legal world with a focus on business law.
From all that I've read and gathered till now, it is a shame that a law univerisity (which supposedly teaches students how to interpret and study law) did not even tell its students like me why the course was shut off and what will happen to the money that thousands of students like me have paid for this course. They just put up a notice on the website stating that the courses have been suspended.
This is extremely unbecoming of a law school of such (allegedly) good repute. Either the university should refund my fees (Rs. 50,000) or they should go ahead an grant my degree to me (provided I complete all the requirements needed for completion of the course).
Shame on all the people who have been part of this decision to alienate students like me.
I will never recommend this law school to anyone I know.
For example, I read that someone was very happy that "lesser mortal" students like us (who aren't pursuing their flagship BA/BSc LLB courses) weren't students of NUJS and they were getting into a mess by signing up for these courses and because the SJA deemed fit that these courses were substandard in nature, they have to be shut down immediately.
What a ridiculous approach to solve this problem.
I've always been thinking of upskilling myself. I did my engineering, then I got a degree in economics, and now I thought this business law course will be good for me.
To be honest, it was a good course (while it lasted). The exams which I gave were totally online and was monitored through my webcam. The course content was decent - you cannot expect it to be top notch since it was one of the first courses to be conducted fully online.
Instead of encouraging education being spread to masses like me, the administration along with the snooty SJA (directed to these who deemed fit to suggest closing the course immediately), decided to take the money from students and ignore mails from us when we asked them what was happening.
Why do you guys want education to be elitist? Is that what you are trying to say to students like us who want to learn? It's very sad.
www.thestatesman.com/supplements/law/distance-education-mess-1502764247.html
What's wrong with you bro!
Kyunki Sab Borbod ho gaya!!
But why would JL go against NKC? I know quite a few JL members have vocal in their preference for VCV. In contrast, many IL members feel that they will be able to "manage" NKC better. Some others in IL lobby are known to be friendly with NKC (which may explain why some in JL don't want him) but have actually been instigating a select band of students against NKC.
I think @Observer made some pretty good observations. And if I read Observer correctly at no point did that person recommend speaking to any "decent" faculty members for advice, instead suggesting that students should abandon their ego and truly listen to their peers including those we may disagree with. Faculty and others, JL or IL are self-serving.
NUJS students instigated by Faulty don't understand that the state doesn't care if it is taken to the court. A quick search of Calcutta and Delhi HCs will show numerous active cases against NUJS
As @Observer rightly put it, a full-on, pitched battle with the state makes no sense. And we already know that the judiciary isn't really going to back us up. It has enough problems of its own.
NUJS in an extended state of limbo as @Observer puts it suits almost everyone - Justice and Injustice Leagues, Sensational and her friends in the EC, Lord Taluk and the state. They expect to frustrate the students into submission or even better, provoke them into doing something stupid.
It is in our interest to ensure that Registrar and AO positions are quickly filled up by permanent recruits so that no one can claim "Acting/Interim/Ad hoc" status to shirk responsibility while facilitating scams and stealthy state encroachment.
The longer the unholy trinity of Lord Taluk, Sensational and AO are allowed to continue in their offices, NUJS will get increasingly into trouble. Lord Taluk may want to scoot asap. The other two know that *t comes before **t.
and will
By the way, there are people who keep droning about rather particular instances of plagiarism and even provided screengrabs of Turnitin reviews. Now pray tell us why did you not pursue a written complaint against such a person? Did you write to Lord Taluk? Did he decline? Did you then approach the Chancellor and/or EC members? Why don't you do it right now instead of trying to burden Arjun?
As far I know Arjun was not spoon fed anything on distance education. He did his own research based on available governing body minutes etc. [...] Since then many in the faculty have wielded that blackmailing tactic on inconvenient students, sparingly. Of course, there are students who don't learn.
NKC has spent a lifetime teaching law. He has held admin positions in CU Law. And has been a Director of KIIT Law for a decade. Now we may of course debate whether he had a stellar record as a teacher and administrator. Compared to that VCV has mostly been on the teaching side and his so-called Dean/VC-ships have been mostly blink-and-miss. VC positions are mostly about administration.
NKC apparently faced an inquiry when he was in CU Law. What was the outcome? Do we have the inquiry report? How did those muckrakers miss these?
www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/nalsargate-download-full-judicial-report-on-gold-meddles-distance-learning-a-scorpions-nalsarites-call-off-protest-20120203-2548
www.legallyindia.com/analysis/nalsargate-the-inside-story-of-an-institution-and-a-secret-report-20120205-2549
VCV name cropped up in connection with irregularities in distance education programmes. Soon after the release of this URC report, VCV made a quick exit along with some others from NALSAR.
Many did not know (and could care less) Faizan Mustafa when he led KIIT Law and later NLUO. In both places his short stints didn't have earth shattering examples of teaching or admin excellence. And yet FM made it to NALSAR and a well known (self-styled?) bleeding heart. FM, who apparently can do no wrong had also strongly lobbied for the discredited ex-NLIU Director, Prof SS Singh for CNLU VC-ship. He has also batted in favour of another problematic VC www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/rgnul-students-nalsar-vc-politely-engage-after-faizan-argued-ncw-didn-t-follow-natural-justice-in-campus-inquiry-20190521-10331
FM journey shows that "unknown" folks can do wonders to an institution despite their funny accents, lack of spoken prowess and other things that make up the elitist glam quotient. And then people having all those things can be big let downs. MoGo was one at NLSIU. For more recent proof, just check in with RaGa (assuming he has realised it) or senior folks in Congress.
Do we really need to become a political football so that both JL and IL profit at our expense?
indianexpress.com/article/india/mamata-banerjee-visits-protesting-doctors-asks-them-to-end-strike-in-4-hours-5778687/
www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/bengal-doctors-remain-defiant-as-cm-mamata-banerjee-threatens-suspension-4094041.html
Apparently NITs generally and the IIEST in Bengal already have a 50% state quota. JU has brought in a 90% state quota for its engineering seats and surprisingly, it was the state JEE Board that wanted the implementation deferred this year since it feared court litigation. It was overruled by the education department, and we know that Edu Secy who sits on NUJS EC will be singing HMV. He is leaving for Delhi in any case and not returning anytime soon as the Chief Secy position will be taken over by the current Home Secy in Oct 2018.
No political party (yes including Bhakt Jan Party) will go against a state quota since they have indulged in it as well. The only way we can make a jab at it is on grounds of procedural integrity, rational nexus to the objective, legislative overbreadth etc - all narrow technical grounds.
Election season has actually begun in Bengal and expect more changes. Whether such things will actually accrue benefits in the electoral hustings is a different debate. Provoking Didi without first building defensive capacities was always a stupid initiative by a section of students egged on by self-serving Faulty.
It now seems @Observer was right all along. We have walked into a trap set by the Faulty. I think we still have time to pull back and strategise. But that will require all of us to shed our inflated egos. Don't count on Faulty.
www.news18.com/news/india/bengal-will-amend-laws-to-bring-more-local-students-to-medical-stream-says-mamata-banerjee-2185557.html
NUJS is next unless the SJA grows a spine. See the video of this brave girl (student at NRS medical college) burn Hitler Didi's effigy [AUTHENTICITY CONTESTED]. The students also booed Mamata when she visited campus. NUJS students should similarly stand up.
[video moderated]
I agree LI should not be too politicised but please understand that the corruption and misgovernance at NUJS is linked to the lager issue of misrule by Mamata Banerjee.
I am told that NUJS doesn't even blip on Didi's radar. But it is a big deal for some of her minions who grace the EC. Don't we all know how certain EC friends of Lord Taluk and Sensational have taken unprecedented interest in NUJS and unsurprisingly the inquiries have gone nowhere (rather haywire in some instances); active suppression of investigations into faculty recruitment irregularities and burial of the Calcutta HC instituted Justice PN Sinha Inquiry Report. Yet these very "honourable" people are obsessed about annexe building construction; 7th CPC payouts to DEOs (and faculty) despite crores in overpayments etc.
As @Observer rightly put it we need to prepare ourselves first; have alternate plans; and then strike when our opponents are least prepared. Right now they are ready but we are not.
In comparison, Mamata nominated her astrologer and some third-rate TMC people.
You say: "I have heard from seniors how NUJS was packed with Reds despite the so-called promise of autonomy by Mr Jyoti Basu." I can guess the person who took you-- a known chela of the current admin who gossips with students and then backstabs them.
indiankanoon.org/doc/1587801/