JNU Teachers' association writes to President Kovind objecting exams via Whatsapp

Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has written to President Ramnath Kovind on Wednesday against JNU ministration's decision of sending examination question papers through Whatsapp stating that it will a mockery of premier institution in world. JNU has decided to send question papers to students via Whatsapp or email due to boycott of exams. students are said to revert through a similar medium.

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Excerpts from letter

“It may be considered shocking that a vice-chancellor of an institution of higher learning could even imagine reducing evaluation system to something like this, which would never be accepted as a credible exercise… We, however, keep learning re are limits to absurdities Prof Jagesh Kumar can inflict on institution he hes. By asking teachers to participate in this travesty, he wants us to join him in destroying JNU’s hard-earned reputation for maintaining high acemic standards,” JNUTA wrote to President.

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“He is also in process asking us to join him in violating provisions of JNU Act, Statutes and Ordinances that V-C and teachers are bound by. se define process through which acemic requirements of different courses and programs, including evaluation systems, are to be decided….,” y ded.

“JNU’s teaching-learning was one of most significant casualties of Professor M. Jagesh Kumar’s autocracy. Today he has offered starkest evidence of this by proposing a mockery of that process as his solution to crisis in JNU. JNU’s teachers appeal to you to see that Professor M. Jagesh Kumar’s continuation in office is also doing great dam to your standing as Visitor of University….we request you again, and through you also to MHRD, to please act and act immediately to abort this destruction of a premier public institution,” JNUTA said.

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