Students at Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi ended their 18-day protest on Thursday after the institute’ administration agreed to their demands, including setting a timeline for restoring the students’ union.
In an order issued on Thursday evening, the administration set May 15 as the deadline for approving and implementing the university’s student union constitution. Elections would be held within six weeks of the start of the next academic session, or by the end of August, the order added.
The university has not held student union elections since 2006. Students had been protesting on the campus since October 12, with five of them going on hunger strike, to demand the restoration of the union.
On October 16, the university rusticated one of the students on hunger strike, suspended two and banned all three from entering the campus for a year.
However, on Thursday it revoked all disciplinary action against protesting students.
The university also said that in-person classes for all courses would resume on Monday and end-semester examinations would also be held offline.
In an order issued on Wednesday, it had announced that end-semester examinations would be held online. Regular classes were also continuing in online mode.
On Monday, the university announced that the students’ union elections would be held within 15 days of the forum’s constitution being approved.
However, students had continued their…
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