MANIPUR: JNUTA EXPRESSED DISSENT OVER EROSION OF CRITICAL CULTURES

Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) joins the Manipur University Teacher’s Association in expressing dissent to the erosion of critical cultures on their university’s campus by an obdurate administration.

Universities across India are resounding with shocking instances of propping up ideological minions as senior officers in administration, especially to the positions such as Vice-Chancellors.

In addition to perpetuating financial assault on academic functioning, these officers who should act as guardians of central universities are politically undermining the important role of universities in delivering social justice. Browbeating students and teachers into following illogical and whimsical functioning has unfortunately become a norm.

JNUTA asserts that protesting is a basic right of citizens alive to the social injustice. Manipur University students and teachers have shown with their inspiring struggle that institutional impropriety must not be borne in silence. They have shown that it cannot be business as usual in the face of rules and norms being flouted by those in power