Despite our constant enquiry, we are not able to get any news/analysis as to why did AMU take such a long gap to re-open? Is everything normal there? The media seems to have become quite insensitive to such an important question. Why troubles are so frequent and normalcy is so elusive with everything that is muslim, including the Muslim University of Aligarh. Pradeep Saxena
We are yet to know when will AMU re-open? Even the informed and resourceful media like the Rediff is not able to say anything on such a long closure. We must know the reasons for such a long closure.
Unfortunately AMU has been a citadel of unscrupulous elements since many many years and now it is taking its toll heavily. We all know that it is a sinister design and conspiracies from within the establishment of AMU Community headed by its teaching staff. The VC has to be very very strict with them and file a criminal case and make sure that they all get harsh jusdgement like the way Anand Mohan in Bihar have got.It is only the community within university has to be blamed - no one else. These bunch of selfish people are responsible for the mess. They must be thrown out of the campus otherwise they will keep insulting our almameter name all the time.Thye are the biggest virus and it has to be removed. VC has to be bold enough to take a strng action against them.
What is wrong with the AMU that it insists on remaining closed since 17th September 2007? Is this a way of running a centrally funded university of several hundred crores?
I wish to congrat your correspondent for being so a meticulously well informed that the khaleej Times and the Times of India like newspapers had to take substantial contents from your site. Please do let us know, when will AMU re-open and are things normal there? what happened to the Justice Mathew Committee Report on the irregularities in AMU? When will AMU come to terms with democracy so that the correspondent could be able to write in his own name? The AMU must be made safe for all such courageous writers/reporters.
I would like the AMU to respond to the following: A high power inquiry committee consisting of judges and bureaucrats should be instituted and must probe the incidents between April and September comprehensively. Previous vice-chancellor Naseem Ahmad should be asked to depose before the committee to expose the individuals and situations that forced him to quit AMU suddenly". moreover, when will AMU re-open?
developing constructive mechanisms to deal with sexual harassment on campus.*
We want DU to be a safe and enclosed campus, with its own sensitized and sensitive security force [which would also comprise student volunteers] and a strong central body made up of elected student and teacher representatives, with statutory powers to deal with sexual harassment on campus.
*United Students organizes protest of parents and other concerned citizens against repeated sexual harassment in DU. * On 23rd September 2007 (Sunday) Central Park, Connought Place at 5:30 PM
Two dozen goons molest a girl student of Delhi University in broad daylight within the campus.
If you think this is unacceptable, read on:
Examinees appearing for a police recruitment test in the university on Sunday ended up sexually assaulting several girl students of various colleges, attacking in droves, tearing off clothes and beating up guards. This happened in broad daylight within the university campus.
Further, the police refused to register FIRs, observing that "nobody got raped" [except for the law, of course]
The university administration and the "elected" students union woke up to the facts only after several hundred students mounted a vociferous protest. They've promised a slew of purely ornamental actions which will definitely NOT help in dealing a death blow to the problem of sexual harassment and eve-teasing in the campus, which seems to have become institutionalized in DU.
The fact remains that such cases continue to recur in DU with frightening regularity. But the administration still doesn't wake up from its slumber and it doesn't develop any mechanisms which will deal with sexual harassment on a daily basis.
*UNITED STUDENTS*, an independent group of DU students which has in the past fought for justice in the Priyadarshini Mattoo and Jessica Lall cases, *is taking the initiative of bringing together parents of DU students and other concerned citizens to press for our demands of developing const
