Fwd: Declaration of Intent
Sneha Singh
From: vaneeta patnaik <vaneeta...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Fwd: Declaration of Intent
To: Sneha Singh <snehas...@gmail.com>
Assistant Professor in law
WB National University of Juridical Science,
Kolkata 700098,
West Bengal,
India
From: SJA NUJS <sja....@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:36 AM
Subject: Declaration of Intent
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Dear members of the NUJS family,
Ever since the last General Body Meeting, a number of doubts and confusions have confronted us from various quarters. We write this letter to clarify our position and offer some perspective to where the student body of NUJS stands on the issues discussed in the meeting.
At the very outset, we would like to thank you for your immense support in attending and contributing over the several hours of discussion over the two days we met last week. Efforts towards improving matters at NUJS will require a great deal of effort and patience, and we hope that we can continue to see the same degree of engagement with the issues from the GB as things progress.
For our part, the centrepiece of our efforts will continue to be restoring academic standards at NUJS and continuing to work the demand for a consultative and, more importantly, transparent and responsive administration. From all of the developments that have unravelled over the past few days, it is amply clear that success on these counts will be hard fought and require sustained effort on our part, and it will only be possible with your input.
The remainder of this email will detail some key developments.
The first resolution that was passed at the GB meeting on 15th January 2014, which demanded the resignation of the Registrar was an unambiguous expression of the sentiment shared by the General Body on account of various longstanding concerns which included but were not limited to the responses received on those issues that were able to be brought up in the meeting. The SJA served a copy of that resolution to the Registrar the very next morning. It is our belief that the full strength of the collective sentiment at the state of affairs at NUJS and the Registrar’s handling of these issues was made clear to him by the language of the Resolution. As to the specific request as to resignation, the Registrar declined to do so stating that it was not within our power to effect his formal stepping down. Admittedly, it would have to be the EC that does so, and although as the GB’s opinions of the moral case against the Registrar’s office stand, a formal and legal case for the same can only be made on the basis of clear determination as to the Registrar’s sole, personal accountability for wrong doing by a body empowered to enquire into the issue comprehensively.
As a result, we will press the GB’s demand for a free and fair inquiry committee (made in the second resolution passed on 15th January 2014, be constituted by the EC so that there can be a time-bound, comprehensive and impartial assessment of the transactions by a competent authority. With regard to the concerns regarding financial misappropriation, the documents that we demanded from the administration are being released reluctantly and in phases and we are currently in the process of inspecting them.
Further, we would like to highlight that the third resolution passed on 15th January 2014, makes it amply clear that we have some very serious concerns regarding various academic issues which require urgent attention. We have already begun work with a volunteer student committee on academic matters and some inputs from faculty members to chalk out concrete proposals that to articulate to the Vice Chancellor. With your help, we hope to work to keep all due attention on these issues, and ensure that our concerns are acknowledged and then effectively addressed.
The resolutions concerning academic reforms and inquiry into alleged financial irregularities will be circulated to members of the Executive Council along with infrastructural demands as part of a comprehensive petition. This petition shall express the anguish felt by students over the various problems plaguing our University and seek immediate and speedy redressal. Pursuant to the conclusion arrived at by the Executive Council, further course of action shall be decided upon consultation with the General Body.
We would like to most humbly submit that we have tried our best to follow the most objectively fair and reasonable course of action amidst all the confusion. Our sincere attempt to ensure that the cause of systemic change at multiple levels in the functioning of the University is furthered. It has been our constant endeavour to give this cause paramount importance and everything we have done and will do in the future would merely be a means to facilitate the same.
We realise that these are indeed trying times for all of us and we completely understand the restlessness and anger that exist. More worryingly, conflicting communications from quarters outside of the student body as to recent developments threaten to dissolve the unity with which we have approached the considerable problems facing us. We undertake to keep you apprised on all key developments formally as necessary, and informally on request, and ask that you not set store by any other accounts of the events.
Finally, we ask that you bear with us a little longer as we are confident that with all the support that you have extended, we can tide over this crisis and emerge stronger that before.
Student Juridical Association, NUJS.