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that there is just ONE “article” published for every 4.5 students The numbers you are looking at are not in thousands or lacs.
each year. This when there are 600 plus Ph.D. s granted annu- These are what they are in INR. So 240 is the entire tuition fee
ally. Would you consider this any worthwhile research work? paid by JNU student. Aside, they pay a generous 6 for library
May be JNU has more “liberal” standards for us to understand & 40 as refundable security deposit. How was a university
this. allowed to run with this fee structure and without any hike for
2) There is huge participation in international conferences. So decades are itself a research paper in the making?
about 2000 international conferences are attended every year. Of-course, nobody at JNU would have time to research
Again, not sure what materializes in those conferences. Cer- on this. IIT Delhi that is located close by charges about 2.25
tainly not the research papers or patents. plus lac annually & IIMs charge about 5 to 10 lac per year. We
don’t see any strikes at those places. Students know they need
Is the fee hike Justified? to jump into the job market, start their earning life & also re-
Firstly, in view of the data above, it doesn’t appear that there pay the student loan that they carry. JNU is free of any such
is much focus on output or getting laurels for the nation at thoughts or troubles. Probably the reason why students have
JNU. There is absolutely no data point to believe that is the much time left to create new troubles of their own. Ideology or
case. Now, let’s look at the “fee” the students pay to study at the idle mind, you decide.
university. I don’t want to conclude any political thoughts here. But the
data from official sources of the university help
us infer a lot of ideas. JNU is a perfect example
of bad socialism. If you give something for free,
people have no incentive to work & earn. Why
would anyone at JNU be in a hurry to find jobs or
even publish research? In a nation where we’re
are hardly able to educate our children through
primary schools, JNU stands tall as an example of
socialist elitism at its best. This must stop. The stu-
dents may have all the time for doctoral courses;
the nation is certainly running out of patience &
money to pay for these scholars.
Surprised that this social reform idea never
came out from the university that claims to be
the biggest study centre on social sciences ? Irony
died a quite death !!
Analysing questions raised in defense of JNU
protests
Some students have raised questions or tried to
defend the protests. Let me try to address some of
these questions:
Defense 1: There is a corruption of thousands of
crores in public distribution system, so why target
few hundred crore of JNU subsidy?
I think this is amusing argument. So both
should stop. Firstly, this is an unfair comparison.
National PDS system budget has to be compared
with the national/state subsidy on ALL universi-
ties in India. I’m sure that amount also will run
into thousands of crores. It is a complete wastage
of resources in India for privileged few. Classic
socialism downside where state resources are
cornered by a powerful few.
Defense 2: JNU will have fewer patents as it is fo-
cused on social sciences. But it has contribution in
social sector. It has provided various luminaries to
the nation & many IAS officers. This is JNU contri-
bution to society.

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