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The University of Delhi and Jamia Milia Islamia have implemented an automated online system to prevent the entry of 'outsiders' in the central library. The system replaced the manual attendance system, and library users viewed it as quick and hassle-free using bar code technology. The launch of an e-Library mobile app also makes thousands of books available online., Delhi News, Times Now
Students with their hands raised outside JMI.
Citizens Against Hate team finds loopholes in NHRC’s probe into violence at Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University
Students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University have recounted chilling testimonies of facing the police as they set out to control protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on December 15, 2019. Even the female students were not spared. “The male police officers were pressing our feet and hands with their boots,” says a student, quoted in the 124-report compiled by the Citizens Against Hate, a Delhi-based collective of individuals and groups.
Released recently, the report also finds substantive loopholes in the National Human Rights Commission’s investigation of the incidents in the two universities.