Professors of prestigious JNU, National Institute of Technology (Kurukshtra), top official of AICTE and some other teachers and officers have been booked by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the conspiracy, educational fraud and abusing their position as public servants.

These teachers and officials have been charged to cheat AICTE in the matter of granting recognition to a Jaipur based Engineering Institute on the basis of false document. A similar kind of case has been registered against a teacher of Delhi University, a teacher of NIT (Kurukshetra), Regional Officer, AICTE, Chandigarh and some other teachers and officers.
CBI has registered cases against them after conducting searches at Jaipur, Kurukshetra, Jallandhar, Chandigarh and Delhi. According to CBI huge cash, assets in form of immovable property and FDRs have been found in the raids.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has announced its admission programme for various courses and discipline. Admission in JNU is now open for undergraduate, post-graduate and M.Phil and PhD level courses in disciplines like humanities, Social Sciences, Life Science, Law and Governance, Computer Science, Biotech and other disciplines. Prospectus will be available for sale from 1st February and application will be submitted till 15th March 2010. For more detail please visit http://www.jnu.ac.in/

Over 20,000 teachers of various central universities today went on two-day strike demanding better service condition for the teaching community. Federation of Central Universities Teachers’ Association (FEDCUTA) had made a call in this regard opposing new service conditions being imposed by the University Grant Commission (UGC) and Ministry of HRD.
“We had no option but to go on strike as UGC is not ready to give an ear to our demands” Aditya Narayan Mishra, President, FEDCUTA, told fachcha.com. According to him several humiliating changes are being made in service condition of teachers without their consent, he adds. There are over 24 Central Universities in the country including Delhi University, JNU, Jamia, Aligarh University, BHU and others. Over 7000 teachers belong to Delhi University alone.

While Telangana issue is not ready to clam down the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) too has joined the demand for Telangana. Students belong to the Telangana area have formed a ‘JNU Forum for Telangana’ (JNUFT).

The forum has already submitted a memorandum to K. Rosaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. The JNUFT, claims backing of teachers and students of Delhi University, IGNOU and JNU including JNU Stuedents’ Union (JNUSU), is also planning to submit a memorandum to the Home Ministry in this regard.
Sunitha Eluri, a member of JNUFT, told fachcha.com that students of Osmania University and other universities protesting in support of the Telangana states are being booked under non-bailable cases. “We demand to immediately withdraw such cases against them through this forum”, she says. According to her police resorted to lathi charge and using rubber bullets in University campuses. Several students were arrested and Police forces are claiming they arrested the students as a preventive mechanism. This attitude of the state government is yet another example of discrimination towards people of Telangana, she says adding that JNUFT strongly condemns such acts.

JNU students today launched a massive protest march in the campus and also at Patiala House court where the accused of the Sunday incident were produced. The students were demanding immediate action against those accused.

Later on, in the evening they gathered in the campus in a meeting to discuss further course of action to stop such kind of incidents in the university. It is notable that JNU is though a closed campus university but the students and atmosphere of the institution is quite open. Some of the outsiders misunderstand the atmosphere and try to take undue advantage of it. The Sunday incident was one of the examples of it. But the frequency of such incidents has increased in recent time.

Though the rounds of students’ meeting continue no outline has been prepared for the further course of action. The students, especially girl students are demanding better security and fear-free environment in the campus.