Students pressurize JU authorities to get job: Professor

Protests bait job for leaders: Student

PS BALI

Jammu, December

Student politics in Jammu University is open to new kind of challenges, where student leaders stage protest to bait personal interests. Just days after the spread of news regarding appointments of Assistant Professor in Jammu University, various student bodies shoved-up to pressure tactics to concede University Authorities, ‘not less than the post'.

This is something Deja-vu in Jammu University, wherein students often resort to such tactics to get their personal work done. “Students protest until specific demand of their leaders is not met. Once leader is satisfied, no more protests are staged and rest of the students discomfit as bewildered crowd,” said a professor wishing anonymity. He added that earlier also such negotiations are held between university authorities and student leaders.

“Among student unions in Jammu University, National Students Federation (NSF) is at the top for blackmailing university authorities at the behest of their political bosses,” said professor adding “earlier NSF president Vikas Sharma held consistent protest demonstrations against university administration, especially Directorate of Distance Education to influence vice chancellor to get job in the university.”

He maintained that Vice chancellor, Prof Ishar Mohan Singh under sheer pressure vehemently patronized NSF president, Vikas Sharma with a job in Jammu University instantly after completing his PhD in statistics. Since after getting job, no protest demonstrations was witnessed in the Jammu University, which made it evident that NSF chief was doing all this for personal interests. “It is evident that some university official is helping him to blackmail university administration by revealing official secrets before him,” he alleged.

Another professor on the condition of anonymity revealed that Vikas Sharma and Rakesh Chib under the command of Head of Department of Statistics are on a spree of blackmailing university authorities. “Due to political influence and physical strength of controversial HoD statistics, NSF president Vikas Sharma was inducted as a contractual lecturer in the Directorate of Distance Education of Jammu University. Whereas, every effort is put to adjust Rakesh Chib as the assistant registrar in the university,” said professor in the Jammu University.

“Protests in Jammu University attract jobs for the leaders, therefore they do it purposefully,” said former member of NSF, adding leaders exploit students with false promises of working for students welfare.

He said “This time NSF and other unions are on toes protesting for unknown issues only to pressurize university authorities to favour them with a job of assistant professor,” he lamented.