⚫ JNU is holding an inquiry against 12 students for allegedly barging into closed reading rooms.
⚫ First-year students of South Asian University (SAU) are boycotting their online classes over withheld scholarships and freeships.
⚫ Delhi University students are campaigning for the campus to be reopened and the students vaccinated against Covid.
Students fearful of the Covid resurgence spoiling another academic year have gone on the warpath, demanding universities reopen campuses for in-person classes and the Centre relax its over-45-only policy to vaccinate them.
The students’ frustration at what they see as the authorities’ rigidity has led to certain unusual situations.
For instance, JNU reopened the reading rooms at its main library two days after several research students forcibly entered them on March 10 –– indirectly acknowledging the justice of the students’ demand –– but has started an inquiry against 12 students in connection with the act.