The JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Friday organised a protest on campus to boycott the compulsory attendance rule that has been introduced by the administration.
JNUSU president Geeta Kumari alleged that the Dean of School of Social Sciences “wrongfully confined” 25 students for boycotting compulsory attendance. “In a highly condemnable incident on Friday, 25 students of Centre for Economic Studies and Planning of School of Social Sciences were wrongfully confined and forced to sign attendance sheets by the Dean,” she said, adding that the incident happened at 2.30 p.m. in the ‘Monetary and Banking Institutions’ lecture when the students refused to sign the attendance sheet in accordance with the JNUSU’s call for boycott of the new rule.
The students were allegedly not allowed to leave without signing the attendance sheet. The JNU Teachers’ Association also supported the JNUSU’s call for boycott of the compulsory attendance rule.
