NUJS closed for chicken pox after tiny small pox scare

Monday, 8 February 2016 By Prachi Shrivastava Law schools

NUJS Kolkata will be closed for the student body for 10 days, starting today, due to the outbreak of chicken pox on campus. Faculty and administrative staff will continue working.

NUJS vice chancellor Prof Ishwara Bhatt told Legally India that 13 students contracted chicken pox recently and noticing this outbreak the administration decided to “act for the health and safety of the students”.

An email was sent to students and faculty on campus today informing every one of the 10-day break, Bhatt said and added that the campus and hostels will be fumigated during the student body’s absence. He also said that classes will be “rescheduled”.

Legally India understands from sources that the first official notification on the disease-outbreak, sent to students, stated that “chicken pox/small pox” had spread on campus. However in a follow up email, reference to the disease eradicated in 1979 – small pox – was deleted.

Classes were rescheduled at Nalsar Hyderabad in January 2015 and at NLU Jodhpur in February 2015 due to the outbreak of swine flu on campus.

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Comments

NLSIU Grad 8 Feb 2016, 12:34
+5 -11
Haha!NUJS should close for tiny small brain case also.
Noojie 8 Feb 2016, 12:58
+4 -2
Boss, pocket dynamites are more effective large jar heads...
Anon.. 9 Feb 2016, 10:03
+6 -1
Your eloquence and articulacy clearly highlight the distinctly superior education you must have recieved as an 'NLSIU grad'.
TAUJI 8 Feb 2016, 13:33
+1 -1
Nalsar hadn't in fact closed down. There was a scare but there wasn't any such action on part of the administration. Just a technicality
mobi 8 Feb 2016, 14:23
+8 -2
Are the faculty and administrative staff at NUJS immune to chicken pox?
who cares! 9 Feb 2016, 02:42
+4 -2
The hilarious bit is not the size of the so called epidemic but the size of the brain of the current Vice Chancellor. The students have three days of fest which goes on till 5 in the morning of monday. And then the same day the great VC takes the word of SJA president and suspends classes from 8th to 22nd of February without verifying the extent of the scare. Without doubt NUJS should rank as the no.1 law school in the country. Three cheers to SJA and Ish bhatt
I care! 9 Feb 2016, 09:57
+2 -1
What an absurdly naive thing to suggest. There obviously existed adequate evidence to prove the presence of the Chickenpox virus and thus to convince the VC and the academic council to take. To think that the college administration ought not to pay heed to information passed along by the student body (especially regarding something as contagious as chickenpox) simply because there happened to be a fest in the three preceding days displays great levels of both distrust as well as foolishness in you.
old hand 9 Feb 2016, 04:48
+1 -0
NUJS was similarly closed down in February 2004 for chicken pox scare. students utilized this valuable time to go to Nalsar and win rich rewards.
bakcho* billi 9 Feb 2016, 09:50
+3 -1
oodiee baba! guesh wat? Nobody cares!!
bro... 9 Feb 2016, 09:55
+2 -0
bhai itna bakwas post main toh nahi padhne wala. Come on kian! Might as well do a post on which college offers the best idli sambhar :P
jackal 9 Feb 2016, 13:48
+0 -0
shambhu shankar namah shivay!
Har Har mahadev 10 Feb 2016, 04:58
+0 -0
Har Har Mahadev. Bom Bom Bhole. Jai Jai Shankar
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