Update: JNU Wins Visitors Award
NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which has been in the middle of controversies for over a 12 months, has Wins the annual ‘Visitor’s Award’ for the most effective varsity within the country.
JNU has been hogging the limelight for all of the unsuitable causes since final February when three of its college students had been arrested on sedition charges in reference to an occasion on campus throughout which anti-national slogans had been allegedly raised.
The varsity administration and college students have been at loggerheads since then over varied points together with curbs on protests, amendments in admission coverage and big seat reduce in MPhil and Ph.D. programs.
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Regardless of all of the adverse limelight, the varsity has been acknowledged by the Customer.
“The winners of Customer’s Award for ‘Innovation’ and ‘Analysis’ will obtain a quotation and money award of Rs one lakh. The awards might be offered throughout a perform as a part of the ‘Competition of Improvements’,” the assertion stated.
JNU Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar will obtain the award together with a quotation and a trophy from President Pranab Mukherjee at an occasion on the Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 6.
“Deepak Pant from the Central College of Himachal Pradesh has gained the Visitor’s Award for ‘Innovation’ whereas the Visitor’s Award for ‘Research’ has been collectively gained by Shyam Sunder from Banaras Hindu University and Niranjan Karak from Tezpur University,” a Rashtrapati Bhavan assertion stated.