Students to intensify #occupugc campaign nationwide

Press Invite: Intensifying #OccupyUGC campaign nationwide;

Join Press Conference today 12 noon at ITO (urgent)

Crucial Decisions Regarding Further Plan of Action of #OccupyUGC

It has been close to three months since the #OccupyUGC movement started as a spontaneous response of students to UGC’s utterly rash decision of discontinuation of the non-NET fellowship scheme. Due to our sustained protests, the matter was passed on to MHRD which then passed on the matter to a review committee to consider the matter and submit a report. However, no news from either the MHRD, the UGC or the review committee has arrived and a clear-cut position on the status of the non-NET fellowship has not been communicated to us, thus far. The indefinite delay on part of the government is completely unjustified and intolerable. Students across the country are getting impatient and, until a clear order from the MHRD, agreeing to our demands is brought out, we will keep intensifying the movement.

Over the past few months, we have witnessed several rounds of lathi-charge, tear gas, detentions, etc. However, police brutality failed to break our resolve and we have not only withstood all pressures but also spread across the country. After discussions with students across the country, we have come up with a plan for a second, more intensified round of nationwide programmes that will be taken up over the next one month. In this regard, some crucial decisions have been taken at the meeting of Occupy UGC campaign committee yesterday, which we would like to communicate to you.

Please make it convenient to attend a press conference at Occupy UGC site, outside ITO Metro Station gate no. 3, (Vidrohi sthal) today at 12 noon.