Update 19 September 2019 01:59: HPNLU Shimla’s administration has effectively kicked all students out of campus after students did not stop protests as the administration had requested.
According to the notice by the administration dated 18 September, the university announced that all administrative buildings would be closed until 25 September, and that “all the students must vacate the University with immediate effect”.
“If any student still prefers staying in the University Campus during night, he/she will be staying at his/her risk and responsibility,” added the admin, and, seemingly contradicting the previous paragraph, noted ominously: “It is further directed that residents of all hostels shall vacate [by 20 September] failing which strict action will be taken.”
It is understood that the university’s mess has stopped serving food and the logistics of how exactly all students are expected to leave campus at such short notice is not clear.
Previous developments
HPNLU Shimla students have gone on protest yesterday demanding an improvement in facilities and food, as the latest national law school to face strikes by students.
According to a student Twitter account:
Since birth HPNLU is lacking in basic facilities including safe drinking water, hygienic food, habitable conditions of hostel rooms etc, till date. Students had protested in March, unaddressed, which is resumed.
In the name of infancy, HPNLU been excused for 3 yrs but now this excuse is used by the admin to cover the facts In the name of lack of funds, students are denied essentials such as moot courts, seminars, fests, sports fests, etc. No funds!
Students have claimed that the mess has been operated unhygienically, resulting in “diseases such as diarrhoea and even hepatitis in students”, according to the students’ accounts.
Meanwhile, the administration has warned students to cease protesting or “strict action shall be taken against students who are found indulging in such activities”.
The registrar in his letter invited two student representatives from each batch to “come and put their grievances before the University Authorities in proper and decent manner”.
The university was “ready to accept, redress all genuine grievances of the students which are possible within the geographical and infrastructural constraints in which the University has to function”.
We have reached out to the HPNLU registrar Prof SS Jaswal for comment.
Shimla’s NLU had started out ambitiously, with its previous founding vice chancellor Prof Subash Chander Raina vowing in 2016 that new courses would be introduced and that the location would be a draw.
However, he said, the government had only provided Rs 20 crores and a lot of land (as opposed to erroneous press reports of Rs 400 crore being earmarked for the college).
Raina was succeeded by Prof Nishtha Jaswal as VC.
Only in July, NLU Odisha students had gone on protests over “uninhabitable conditions of the girls’ hostel, the dismal state of the sports shed and failure to provide a suitable library” and a fee-hike, according to numerous reports.
Comments
You are merely asking for what is rightfully yours and as long as the protest is peaceful, you are Constitutionally protected to do so.
Please get your rightful demands accepted in writing and then call of the protest. Please acknowledge the power of student unity as was seen in HNLU, NUJS, RGNUL, CNLU, etc. You're powerful together and so don't let them play you.
God bless.
Stop giving people any more negativity that they already have. Any such case filed is bad in law and cannot affect any career choice of UPSC or judiciary, etc.
Please stop.
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You have names of 14 NLUs on your poster. Fair to say these places shall have at least 7000 LLB students. Why is it that you never get a 'like' from 1% of them (70 likes) when you post this idea on almost every other story on LegallyIndia? Could it be that they are not in the least interested? Not even 1% to log-on here and click like? How do you then believe they will 'march' and 'petition'?
Though, it seems you are taking on board this lack of interest, and have removed the 'sing' and 'dance' (that some of your older posters had) as activities to generate awareness.
Summary: Bhai tu post like hi karvaale, yeh march warch to nahi ho raha.
HPNLU students are paying for moot court, Journal, and other Co-curricular and Extra-curricular activities. However, There is no sign of such activities in the university. Due to hostile attitude of the administration, the students could not able to develop ADR culture in the university. There is no faculty exchange programme, no visit of eminent personalities, however students are paying a hefty amount for all these activities.
If you think 2.5 lacs a year is peanuts and the students are demanding a luxurious lifestyle then i think either you are a student of a private university/college who could not secure admission in an NLU or you are a privileged rich kid.
I used to sit on on a high horse about the top rung NLUs being better but working with some of these people will give you a new found respect for how hard they work and how much they like what they do.
Your performance in an exam shouldn't dictate what you do with your life. That being said, if you look at the degree only for its returns, there's "market risks".
There is only one way to do it now. Stay on campus and get those demands answered.
Or really - dont take any action and loose all respect. You are JUST another new nlu right. Ghar jao, chod do nlu ka chakkar.
yeh Google ke Pehle page se hai -
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/hyderabad-university-students-allege-they-are-being-forcibly-evicted-hostels-43584
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india-allahabad-university-violence-students-go-on-rampage-after-being-asked-to-evict-hostel-445669
UoH and Allahabad University no less. Kya tum NLU waale kuch bhi ugal dete ho.
[b]PS: Not condoning the university's action or belittling the suffering students lot. Just pointing out the hyperbole common to these forums.[/b]
There is a difference on being asked to vacate premises during vacations and on being asked to do so during a full blown academic year.
Local college se lagte ho. NLU wale hote toh ye samajh aa jata.
https://www.livelaw.in/lawschool/news/profs-paramjit-s-jaswal-nishtha-jaswal-receive-amity-academic-excellence-award-2019-143179
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Nagpur is in Maharashtra which has 3nlus. Nagpur wo city of oranges wala nagpur hai... Aur shimla is in himachal pradesh... himachal where you have manali... Shimla ke aage... Aur aage Wahan baba ki booti milti h... Li nahi h kya baba ki booti? Ya fir abhi utri nahi h?