Is JNU's future at stake? Teachers headed for battle with 'undemocratic' VC

The teachers' association has alleged that the VC's undemocratic functioning is ruining the "teaching-learning practices" that made JNU a top-performing university

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) and university administration are headed for a long-drawn fight in the days to come. A letter by the administration, faculty members say, indirectly warned them against participating in a hunger strike that JNUTA had planned for November 26. 

The JNUTA, on 19 November, in its general body meeting had decided to sit on a one-day hunger strike to protest against alleged “autocratic” handling of academic matters.

The teachers’ union says that the decision to protest was taken after the vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar turned down multiple requests to meet JNUTA’s elected members. The teachers’ association