Students participating in a "referendum" held by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) have voted heavily for reinstating the entrance exam for PhD admissions in the prestigious university. In the polling, that took place between 5 pm and 10 pm on Saturday in the hostel areas on the university campus, 1,323 of the 1,424 votes cast favoured bringing back the JNU Entrance Examination (JNUEE). Ninety-six voted against it while five votes were declared invalid. The Left-wing All India Students' Association (AISA), which holds the JNUSU president post, had urged students to vote for the restoration of the entrance exam. In a statement, the university student union criticized the JNU vice-chancellor for allegedly backtracking on her promise, made during a 16-day hunger strike, to conduct an in-house PhD entrance exam for 2025 admissions. "Madam VC backtracked from her word'. JNU VC consciously decides to pay no heed to the deans of the schools and chairpersons of the .
Candidates who have already locked their seats will have to visit the campus in the first week of November for physical verification of their documents
Candidates can apply for the programmes through the official website of JNU -- jnuee.jnu.ac.in
The exams will be conducted by the National Testing Agency online at designated centres
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) entrance exam will be conducted whenever it is safe for the students to write it, assured JNU Vice-Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar on Wednesday.
Final year exams in universities will have to be conducted by September-end this year, the HRD Ministry announced on Monday
The move comes two years after after it was put forward at a meeting of varsity's Academic Council