Saturday, December 06, 2025 | 01:16 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Is JNU's future at stake? Teachers headed for battle with 'undemocratic' VC

The teachers' association has alleged that the VC's undemocratic functioning is ruining the "teaching-learning practices" that made JNU a top-performing university

Photo of Jawaharlal Nehru University campus.
premium

Photo of Jawaharlal Nehru University campus.

The Wire Staff New Delhi
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) and university administration are headed for a long-drawn fight in the days to come. A letter by the administration, faculty members say, indirectly warned them against participating in a hunger strike that JNUTA had planned for November 26. 

The JNUTA, on 19 November, in its general body meeting had decided to sit on a one-day hunger strike to protest against alleged “autocratic” handling of academic matters.

The teachers’ union says that the decision to protest was taken after the vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar turned down multiple requests to meet JNUTA’s elected members. The teachers’ association