Today’s boycott follows more than six weeks of boycott of psychology lectures, by the students, protesting the law school administration’s alleged inaction in appointing a competent teacher for psychology.
Psychology is a mandatory paper for second year LLB students at NUSRL.
A second year student told Legally India, that NUSRL had appointed a clinical psychologist working at the Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi, to teach the paper, after the law school’s former psychology lecturer Dr Shewta Moon resigned in February to pursue research work in Singapore.
The student said that the second year class found this new appointee barely competent to teach and had raised this issue before the law school’s vice chancellor Prof BC Nirmal. The students had also raised concerns over the lack of an advertisement for the vacant faculty member post at the university.
The second year LLB class had addressed a letter to Nirmal on 3 March stating:
“[…] Despite of several applications addressed to the benign authorities we regret to inform you that no action has taken place till date.
Our main issues and as addressed in the application are:
- Immediate change in the faculty of psychology
- Immediate and timely future distributions of the course compendiums in proper state
- Immediate change in the time scheduled for the 2nd year batch
Sir, as mentioned above, we take pain to inform you that if the issues remain unresolved “WE” the “Batch of 2019” shall refrain ourselves from attending classes from Tuesday onwards i.e. from 08.03.16.”
Nirmal today commented, on phone, that he had “already appointed” a faculty, though not through advertisement because the administration was short on time. He said that this new appointee will “come and teach at the law school three to four times a week”, and has already taken a few classes at NUSRL in the last few days.
Nirmal did not remember the name and qualifications of the newly appointed psychology teacher and told Legally India he would have to consult internally to get those details.
He also said that the administration will “explore the possibility” of converting today’s boycotted exam into a project to be submitted by the second year students.
He added, when asked about the course compendium mentioned in the students’ letter, that he has now given instructions to the “concerned faculty” to prepare and distribute it.
The second year students have paid the law school an annual fee of Rs 1.95 lakh this year, of which the tuition component is Rs 1 lakh.
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I think it's generally great that law school students are standing up to the admin democratically and making their concerns heard, rather than cowering in fear before the admin as is the case in many other colleges.
Really? Don't drag my name in it.
Where these small, responsible kids have consistently been fighting for this which is an absolute wrong, what they have doing is itself in a way a right thing to do.
The sole objective of education is not only for passing exams and getting white collar jobs. We teach students to make them able to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong irrespective of the fact that it is of a meagre importance or a higher importance. It is a lawyer's duty to uphold the ethical values in a society, that is why because of this lawyers are known as the social engineers!
One must think outside of his selfish concern and support what is right!
Nice work, God bless you all students!
It is time for them to reflect upon their childish act, that has tarnished the image of "their" university.
How dare you give all the credit of staging the protest to those 10 something students. We are offended.
-Batch of 2019, NUSRL
I dont know how much you know about NUSRL, but the allegations you have made on these 10 kids are baseless and seems it is out of your own personal grudges against them. All of this is too subjective. And if you are pretending to be someone who closely follow this university or supposed to be a well wisher then whether putting personal allegations on few of the students on this forum is justified enough.
Let me tell you about myself, i am a final year student and must have done exponentially more than you for the institutional building. These "10" kids or for that matter any one from that batch have always been cordial enough with all their seniors. I wish every batch could have respected there seniors like this batch. They are outspoken, some time they act immaturely, but they are second year "kids". I admit we have some point of departure from their act and we are not happy about this whole incident. But this nowhere gives someone like you an opportunity to put allegations on these kids that they are settling scores. Infact, i think you are trying to create differences and settle your own score with these kids.
N yeah, in a family when an insider behaves like an outsider then that filthy person have no right to comment on the internal matters of a family. And we at NUSRL are one strong family, dare not to be a mess up with my family.
Take a chill pill.