YFE Pamphlet 23Oct 2008

Why Youth For Equality is the need of the hour?

I came, I saw, I conquered According to Plutarch , the words by which Julius Caesar succinctly described one of his victories. When a normal student enters JNU he/she feel that he/she has conquered a war. Within no time they started feel: I came, I saw and am now frustrated! Why -

The Scene 1: A young, anxious, curious and promising fresher entered into the portals of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University. After a harried journey and ride to the campus, the winding and gradually undulating roads, the verdant greenery and the impressive Ad Block building are a soothing balm on his/her frayed nerves. One look at the statue of our first PM, standing tall and elegant next to the Ad Block and the entrant cant help but feel proud of his/her stars, to have made it here.

The Scene 2: The admission process begins. The fresher is handed a sheaf of folios and asked to fill them out. “What, all of these”, s/he asks in sheer bewilderment. “These are meant to “facilitate” your admission procedure”. The term facility seems to have a different meaning in JNU; its synonyms could be cumbersome, tedious and unnecessarily taxing. If filling out the zillion documents was not enough, then throw in running from pillar-to-post for hostel allotment, if you were lucky enough to get one at all. As s/he wakes up to these facts of the administration, the now not-so-enthusiastic student is left thinking, “ Is this the JNU of my Dreams?”

E-governance: The Solution to These problems

Lets re-imagine the aforementioned situation, albeit in a novel way.

The student comes to JNU and reaches the ad-block. Instead of having a barrage of paperwork hurled onto him/her, they are greeted by a single-window system of admission; they start with feeding in their registration number into a computer terminal, which tells them their rank within the center, for the course that they have applied for. Candidates who have made it to multiple courses are informed of all their options and asked to choose likewise.

Having made up his/her mind, the student is now asked to fill out a SINGLE prototype of the folio, online. A facsimile of this document is dispatched to all the offices where it is required, also online. Any mistakes in filling out the form will be highlighted by the computer and the candidate will be prompted to rectify them, then and there.

For fee deposition, the candidates will have to carry a DD of the requisite amount with them and simply fill up the draft no. as and when prompted by the computer; no hassle of waiting in long queues for balance. Online bank services will be provided, in case one does not have a draft.

This being done, the page would change to the hostel allotment procedure. Since the details are already with the administration, the hostel availability status, in view of the rank and seniority of the candidate, will be displayed on the screen. The candidates will be told of the dates when the hostel allotment starts and the allotment procedure will be online as well.

As the day ends, the student returns to his/her abode, relaxed and unruffled. As he thinks about the great ease with which he spent his day, so productively, he can’t help but think, “This is the JNU of my dreams”.Youth For Equality is committed to the e-governance and once it win the JNUSU election, the first thing after the scholarship issue will be that of e-governance as described above. Only student support is required to convert this archaic system into a modern one. Lets join hand to make this university modern and student friendly.

Manish Mishra

Chief Campaign Coordinator,YFE

Hasan Mohammad

YFE Representative

Public Talk 23 October 2008, 9:30pm at Mahi-Mandavi Mess

Why YFE is the need of the hour?

Competitive politics over reservation in India is rampant without rest. All the parties trying to woo one or other caste group. Political parties are holding caste panchayat and offering irrational booty in return of vote. While addressing a convention of upper castes in UP, Mayawati said, "The reservation on the basis of economic and other parameters will enable the upper caste community members to address their problems, especially those related to poverty and unemployment." This is another way of alluring some more caste groups and hence continues with the caste legacy. If the state nurse education and economy properly no reservation is needed for any section or community of India. Youth For Equality is all for over all improvement of all the community not on the basis of caste but on the basis of real disadvantage and poverty. Identification of the people who left behind in the process of development must be done on individual basis and accordingly the issue of backwardness must be addressed.

The need of YFE is very relevant to achieve certain most striking goals of JNU student.

1. YFE will meet the demand that the UGC Fellowship for M.Phil./Ph.D. (Rs.3,000/5,000 since April 2007) students should be equalized with that of the Rajeev Gandhi Fellowship (Rs. 12,000/14,000 since July 2005).
2. If YFE’s agitation can result in the increase of CSIR seats and increase in CSIR Fellowships (Rs.12,000 & Rs. 14,000 respectively for JRF and SRF from Rs.8,000 & Rs.10,000), JNUSU’s agitation can ensure many such achievements.
3. YFE never collected money from the campus for Bihar Relief Work. Rather we seek volunteer for relief work in Bihar. Even now YFE volunteers are working in Saharsa, Bihar. The contact nos for help line are Mumbai +91 - 9324334359, 9821871945, New Delhi- +91 – 9811382902,9868340420, Patna - +91 – 9308022326, 9234616135. More can be found at http://youthforequality.com. Now the question is what happens to the money collected by outgoing JNUSU from JNU community?? Every time there is a national calamity the left parties indulge in collection of money and make profit out of national calamity. Last year’s community kitchen scandal is still fresh. Lots of money collected from the student, faculty and staff but no account is available.
4. YFE will ensure that reservations should not be on the basis of caste, but should be based on the real backwardness and economic background.
5. YFE will ensure in no uncertain term that in the campus must be the first 'e-governance' zone in India.
6. YFE will ensure that DSW should notify the list of all hostels just before the commencement of academic session clearly stating the no of rooms available for fresh allotment for the newcomers and also the shortfall the university have to bear. This is especially important as every hostel asked the old student to vacate the room on 15th May every year. Why periodic list and why harassment?
7. As per the JNUSU constitution article-13(ii), no. of council seats from different Schools/Centres should be like following: NO. OF STUDENT COUNCIL SEAT
   20-60 1
   61-100 2
   101-200 3
   201-300 4
   301 and above 5

As per the constitution the JNUSU must ensure the increase of one council seat in SBT, SPS and SAA as their strength is more than 60 from past many years. Also, one separate council seat should be allotted for SCMM, which has been included with BIC till now, since both centers have more than 30 students. YFE will ensure all this.

With these ideals and many more YFE is again contesting the 2008 JNUSU election. We believe that during the last many years precious little has been done for the University and hence JNU is not figured in the best 400 universities of the world. YFE is committed for the excellence of JNU with the support of student community.

Why Youth For Equality is the need of the hour??

One communist student body (SFI) was taken over by another set of radicals but more inefficient communist student body (AISA) during the 2007 JNUSU election. The tall claim of AISA had fallen flat when the year 2007-08 ended without a single achievement to name! AISA’s style of functioning does not include the welfare of student or welfare of campus! That’s why they remained a mute spectator to the end number of discriminatory treatment meted out to various sections of JNU student in matter ranging from hostel allotment to scholarship issue. The outgoing JNUSU never raised the issue of placement cell in JNU and cannot think of e-governance. All the infrastructure including adequate no of computers meant for the e-governance programme gathering dust in JNU but AISA have no time to modernize the campus and least interested to make the university more student friendly. JNU follows archaic system of admission, registration and its policies are more painful for those who intended to submit Dissertation and Thesis. AISA want to make it more complicated and prefer to stay in the Stone Age.

If we forget for a moment about the campus activities – the most popular theme of AISA was Singoor. Contrary to their claim, the farmers and families who were earning their bread and butter from TATA Plant in Singoor are now committing suicide after the departure of TATA. AISA must be very much satisfied seeing the population of Singoor starving after the departure of TATA! Due to heavy construction activities in JNU the number of workers actually increased over the one year but AISA stopped persuading their cause! Probably it is no more productive politically for AISA! There is no end of their failures!

YFE to check the champion of competitive reservation politics!

Another party ABVP (champion of caste based OBC reservation) with all its loud words for nationalism and national unity actually work overtime to divide the society on caste basis. Twice its parent party BJP had bent the Indian Constitution to accommodate its vote greed interest by promoting sectarian interest. First the BJP bent the constitution in the year 2000 with THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTY-FIRST AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000 [9th June, 2000]. This was meant to overrule the Supreme Court order on the rule against the carry forward policy! Look at this how BJP’s Vasundhara Raje made the proposal: “The Supreme Court of India in its judgment in the Indra Sawhney versus Union of India held that the number of vacancies to be filled up on the basis of reservations in a year including carried forward reservations should in no case exceed the limit of fifty per cent. The Government, after considering various representations, reviewed the position and has decided to make amendment in the constitution so that the unfilled vacancies of a year, which are reserved for being filled up in that year in accordance with any provision for reservation made under clause (4) or clause (4A) of article 16 of the Constitution, shall be considered as a separate class of vacancies to be filled up in any succeeding year or years and such class of vacancies shall not be considered together with the vacancies of the year in which they are being filled up for determining the ceiling of fifty percent.” BJP’s scheme of promoting caste does not end here and in the year 2002 brought another amendment. This time extending reservation in promotion! Scandalous one can say and while doing so the BJP actually killed the efficiency factor at work place in one stroke. Now onwords promotion no more on the basis of performance but caste. THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001[4th January, 2002], brought by the BJP government made provision for reservation in promotion, that means promoting the already empowered! The amendment says: “Amendment of article 16.-In article 16 of the Constitution, in clause (4A), for the words "in matters of promotion to any class", the words "in matters of promotion, with consequential seniority, to any class" shall be substituted.” Now the time has come to realize the folly. Let’s choose our leader with reason and result oriented analysis. Lets make no mistake in choosing Youth For Equality.

YFE JNU needs you

Dear All,

Everybody knows how Youth For Equality is functioning and how it is
achieving one after another milestone. It is our struggle which brings
54% increase of seats, never a single seat ever increased in
independent India before. It is our struggle that struck down AIIMS
amendment act 2007 passed by the parliament. And it is our struggle
now that the vacant OBC seats are allotted to general category
students. Now the creamy layer issue is another challenge the Supreme
Court has accepted and it is our persuasion only which forced the
court to issue notice.

It gives us immense pleasure to say that we are now invitee to the
National Knowledge Commission meeting to give our view on expansion of
education, Madhya Pradesh Commission for Economically Backward person
has sought our opinion and many more.

Much needed to be done.

How to maintain and sustain our presence! Definitely not possible
through net only. We need person who can speak for us at public
platform and at places of importance. When politics decide your future
decide what your politics must be!

JNU election is one such stage. YFE is fighting for third time and
with a sheer conviction to win this time.

Undiluted support from all of us is required. One man handling the
whole affairs of JNU election with a variety of support from others –
Sujeet Kumar, Ph.D. student of School of BioTechnlolgy, JNU. He needs
hands, hearts and heads to ensure victory for our fighting candidates.
Your support is very vital. Please come forward to support what ever
way he wants.

Contact: Sujeet Kumar, 9958463132, kumarsujeet@gmail.com and
sujeet12in@yahoo.com

We cannot correct the system while hating to participate. Lets take
part in the change.

Lets do our bit, right now right here!!!

Kind Regards
YFE team