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The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has rescheduled a crucial meeting of its Academic Council to facilitate the presence of a key faculty member.
The council will meet on Wednesday now it was earlier scheduled to meet on April 3 to discuss whether SC/ST reservation should be extended to associate professor and professor levels. On Monday,the members were informed that the meeting had been rescheduled due to unavoidable circumstances. Wednesdays meeting will be a continuation of the adjourned meeting on March 18.
Officials said Aditya Mukherjee,professor at the Centre for Historical Studies,is leaving the country on Wednesday and would have missed the council meeting of April 3.
Yes,I am leaving for France on Wednesday night and would not have been able to attend the meeting if it took place on Saturday. The rescheduling helps me to present my case but I am not aware of the reason for the change in dates, Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee,a renowned professor of Contemporary Indian History,has emerged as the main campaigner against reservations in JNU. He chaired the committee that formulated a controversial procedure for admission to JNU through OBC reservation.
The committees recommendations were overlooked in the March 18 meeting after a sustained protest by the JNU community.
Vice-Chancellor B B Bhattcharya said: There are three holidays that come in between. We thought it would be better to have the meeting earlier than to cause inconvenience.
I have not heard of an Academic Council meeting being rescheduled. The notification came at the eleventh hour,which is surprising, a senior JNU faculty member said.
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