AMU winter vacations extended for indefinite period, students condemn the VC move

Jan 1, 2020
Aligarh: With the discontent over the CAA-NRC  refusing to subside and anger among students simmering over the recent police action, the Aligarh Muslin University(AMU) authorities on Wednesday decided to extend the winter vacations. The university will not reopen on January 6, as announced earlier.

President of the AMU Students Union Mashkoor Sherwani condemned the move as anti-student. He told India News Stream that they had appealed to all students not to leave the campus and asked those living outside Aligarh to join in on January 6.

A university spokesperson said, “Due to overall prevailing situation, winter vacations of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for students as well as for the teaching staff, have been extended and the University will not be opening on January 6, 2020. It was decided in a consultative meeting of the Deans of Faculties, Principals of Colleges and Polytechnics and other functionaries of the University under the Chairmanship of AMU Vice Chancellor, Professor Tariq Mansoor held today.”

“A detailed schedule for opening of the University in a phased manner, the conduct of remaining examinations which could not be held in December, 2019, commencement of classes for the next semester and the duration of the summer vacations shall be notified by the University in due course of time so that there is no academic loss to the students,” said Mujib Ullah Zuberi, Controller of Examinations.

The AMUSU president said that this decision of the University was not in the interest of anyone.

”The Vice Chancellor has simply become a stoog of the Government and he was just carrying out the orders of the PMO,” he said.

”We will agitate against the NRC-CAA peacefully and at the same time appear in the examination and  carry on all other academic activities,” Sherwani said.

Former AMUSU president Faizul Hasan said the students will oppose this decision of the Vice Chancellor tooth and nail. Extension of vacations was a loss to all students and they will not  comply with the latest order of the VC.

–India News Stream