New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) has lengthy been thought of a bastion of the left. After the Modi authorities got here to energy on the Centre in 2014, JNU was mentioned rather a lot on many points. The protests on the campus of then pupil leaders like Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid attracted the eye of the entire nation. On the identical time, info obtained by means of the Proper to Data (RTI) exhibits that JNU’s funding has elevated after the Modi authorities got here to energy on the Centre. On the identical time, the variety of FIRs towards college students has additionally elevated. Praful Sarda, an RTI activist from Pune, had sought particulars on the subsidy offered to JNU throughout the tenure of the federal government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the final decade.
In keeping with the data obtained from RTI, between 2004-05 and 2014-15, JNU obtained a complete subsidy of Rs 2,055 crore. On the identical time, the subsidy elevated to Rs 3,030 crore between 2015-16 and 2022-23, which exhibits that JNU obtained 1.5 instances extra funding throughout the Modi authorities than within the earlier decade.
Nevertheless, when the variety of FIRs registered towards JNU college students is in contrast, an enormous contradiction can be seen. Earlier than 2016, no FIR was registered towards JNU college students. On the identical time, since 2016, the college administration itself has registered 35 FIRs towards its personal college students. Nevertheless, the RTI activist additionally confronted a variety of problem in getting extra details about these FIRs.
RTI activist Praful Sarda says that the federal government ought to spend money on extra nationwide universities and in addition assist present universities. He means that Mumbai and Pune universities ought to be chosen first for this profit as a result of these universities educate a variety of college students from rural areas.