Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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Jawaharlal Nehru University also known as JNU, is a public central university in New
Delhi, the capital of India. In 2012 The National Assessment and Accreditation Council
gave the university a grade of 3.9 out of 4, the highest grade[1] awarded to any
educational institution in the country.[2] The university is ranked second among the
Contents
1 History
2 Special Centres and Schools
3 Reputation and Rankings
4 Constituent centres
5 Infrastructure
Type
Public
Established
1969
Chancellor
K. Kasturirangan
5.1 Modernization
Academic staff
Administrative
staff
Students
Location
Campus
Urban
Affiliations
Website
www.jnu.ac.in
(http://www.jnu.ac.in/)
6 Notable alumni
7 Notable faculty
8 Controversies
8.1 Mushaira disturbance Army Officers in 2000
8.2 2010 celebration of Dantewada massacre
8.3 2016 sedition controversy
8.3.1 Onset
8.3.2 Government, University and Students' Union response
8.3.3 Arrests of student leaders
8.3.4 Fabrications
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
History
Jawaharlal Nehru University was established in 1969 by an act of parliament.[4] It was named
after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. G. Parthsarthi was the first vicechancellor.[5]
2. School of Arts and Aesthetics:[7] This is one of the newest schools in the university. It is
one of the few places in India that offers postgraduate degree courses in the theoretical and
critical study of the cinematic, visual and performing arts. Moreover, it is the only place in
India where these disciplines are offered in one integrated programme that allows students to
New Delhi
understand the individual arts in a broader context of history, sociology, politics, semiotics,
gender and cultural studies apart from being able to integrate the study of one art form with
the other arts. The three streams of study offered at the school are Visual Studies, Theatre and
Performance Studies and Cinema Studies.
3. School of Biotechnology: This school was set up in 2006 from the earlier Center for
Biotechnology. BioSpectrum magazine rated the Bio Technology program of JNU as third
ranking institute among all public schools in India.
4. School of Computer and Systems Sciences: Since its inception in 1974, this school has been
attracting the largest number of applications as compared with the other schools. The school
specially caters to three fields of study: Master of Computer Application (MCA), Master of
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Technology (M.Tech.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). The faculty and students deal with a
wide range of computer science and technology areas, for example: Database Systems,
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Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Operation Research, Mathematical Modelling,
Optimization Techniques, Software Engineering and many more. A student placement cell
facilitates the students to enter the global IT market after completion of the course.[8]
5. School of Environmental Sciences: Research into remote sensing application in
geosciences, especially groundwater and earthquake forewarning and SunEarth connection.
Other research includes Environmental Biosciences, Ecology, Geomics, Glaciology,
Chemistry, Cell Biology, Immunology, Pollution studies, Radiation Physics and
Environmental Physics.
6. School of International Studies: This is the oldest school. It predates the establishment of
JNU as the Indian School of International Studies, which was set up in 1955.[9] The centers
Arts Faculty, JNU.
in this school are the Center for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, the Center for
East Asian Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for International Legal
Studies, the Center for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament Studies, the
Center for International Trade and Development, the Center for Russian and Central Asian
Studies, the Center for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, the
Center for West Asian Studies, Centre for African Studies and the Group of Comparative
Politics & Political Theory.
7. School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies: This is the only school that offers
undergraduate courses with several centers: the Center for Arabic and African Studies, the
Center for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, the Center for French and Francophone
Studies, the Center for German Studies, the Center of Indian Languages, the Center for
Japanese Korean and North East Asian Studies, the Center for English Studies, the Center
for Linguistics, the Center for Persian and Central Asian Studies, the Center for Russian
School of Biotechnology building
Studies, the Center for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies.
8. School of Life Sciences: The School of Life Sciences (SLS) was established on the basis of a
report prepared by a working group headed by Prof. M.S. Swaminathan in 1970. The school stands today as a unique institution in
the country where multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research in life sciences have established permanent roots.
The uniqueness of the school essentially lies in the fact that in the faculty there are experts and active researchers representing
almost all areas of modern biology. The school has been recognized as Center of Excellence under UGCCOSIST and DSA Special
Assistance Programmes. Almost all the students completing Ph.D. degrees from SLS (285 till date) get opportunities for post
doctoral work abroad, and a great many return to serve the country. The schools faculty and students publish extensively in
reputed national and international journals: To date, SLS has to its credit over 2000 research publications.
9. School of Physical Sciences: This school was formed in 1986 with a faculty in Physics and later added with faculties in Chemistry
and Mathematics. The degree programs offered are M.Sc. (in Physics) and Ph.D. (in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics). The areas
of research interests include Theoretical and Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, SoftMatter Physics, Nonequilibrium
Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Quantum Chaos, Low Temperature Physics, Materials Science,
Supramolecular Chemistry, Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy, as well as extensive computational facilities with a dedicated Nonlinear
Dynamics laboratory.
10. School of Social Sciences: It is the largest school (in terms of the number of faculty members) in JNU with nine centres. Its
centers include the Center for the Study of Regional Development, which is accredited as the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) by
the University Grants Commission and is the premier center in the field of geography, the Center for Economic Studies and
Planning [3] (http://www.cespjnu.in/), which is a premier institute in the field of economics, the Center for Historical Studies,
which regularly brings out a reputed peerreviewed journal Studies in History, the Center for Philosophy, the Center for Political
Studies, the Center for Studies in Science Policy, the Center for the Study of Social Systems, the Center of Social Medicine and
Community Health, the Zakir Husain Center for Educational Studies,[10]
University rankings
General India
Careers 360 (Magazine)[11]
Medical India
Business India
20
Constituent centres
The following are the constituent institutes under the university:[14]
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
Officers Training Academy, Chennai
Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow
Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum
College of Military Engineering (CME), Pune
Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow
The National Defence Academy, Pune
The Army Cadet College, Dehra Dun
In addition, the university has exchange programmes and academic collaboration through the signing of MoUs with 71 universities
around the world.[15] The University has also sent a proposal to set up a Center in Bihar.[16]
Infrastructure
Modernization
The university has been modernising by moving toward "paperless"[17] transparency and egovernance with the help of Wipro and a
wireless network to connect the students and the teachers to the library.
Student activism
The university is known to have a long tradition of alumni who now occupy important political and bureaucratic positions (see Prominent
alumni). This is in part due to the strong prevalence of LeftCentric student politics and the existence of a written constitution for the
university to which noted Communist Party leader Prakash Karat contributed exhaustively during his education at JNU.[18] However,
on 24 October 2008 the Supreme Court of India stayed the JNU elections and banned the JNUSU for not complying with the
recommendations of the Lyngdoh committee.[19] After a prolonged struggle and multiparty negotiations, the ban was lifted on 8
December 2011.[20] After a gap of more than four years, interim elections were scheduled again on 1 March 2012.[21] Following the
election results declared on 3 March 2012, AISA candidates won all four central panel seats and Sucheta De, the president of AISA
became the president of JNUSU.[22]
Notable alumni
Abhay Kumar, diplomat, Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs India
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Aditya Jha, Canadian entrepreneur; philanthropist and philosopher; active in Canadian public affairs
Ahmed bin Saif Al Nahyan, chairman of Etihad Airways
Ajit Seth, Indian Civil Servant, Cabinet Secretary of Republic of India
Ali Zeidan, Prime Minister of Libya[24]
Amitabh Rajan, Indian Civil Servant, Home Secretary of Government of Maharashtra
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary of India (since January 2015)
Anjali Gopalan, Executive Director of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust.
Ashok Tanwar, Secretary, All India Congress Committee and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
B. S. Chimni, Professor, JNU and former Vice Chancellor WBNUJS
Baburam Bhattarai, former (36th) prime minister and former finance minister of Nepal
D. P. Tripathi, general secretary NCP, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Digvijay Singh, former Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Gaiti Hasan, microbiologist
Harun Rashid Khan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Lalit Mansingh, Dean of Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi
Mahendra P. Lama, Professor, JNU
Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinsky Professor of History, University of Chicago, US
Nirmala Sitaraman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce & Industry,[25] as well as a Minister of
State for Finance and Corporate Affairs.Until recently she served as a national spokesperson for Bharatiya Janata Party.[26] Also
she is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Bharatiya Janata Party
Palagummi Sainath, journalist
Prakash Karat, Member, Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Ranjit Nayak, World Bank Country Representative in Kosovo
Notable faculty
Abhijit Sen, Member of Planning Commission of India
Amitabh Mattoo, Director Australia India Institute and Professor of International relations, University of Melbourne
B. S. Chimni, Former Vice Chancellor, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
Baburam Bhattarai, 36th Prime Minister of Republic of Nepal
Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
H.S. Shivaprakash, Theatre and Performance Studies, Poet, Dramatist and Director, ICCR Tagore Centre, Berlin
Jayati Ghosh, Member of National Knowledge Commission, India
K. N. Panikkar, Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala
Kanti Bajpai, Former Professor of International Relations, Wolfson College, Oxford
Lalit Mansingh, Former Ambassador to the United States
Madhavan K. Palat
Muchkund Dubey, Former Foreign Secretary of India
Naman Ahuja, art historian
Prabhat Patnaik, Deputy Chairman of the Kerala Planning Commission
Prasenjit Sen, Rector and Professor,School of Physical Sciences
Romila Thapar, former Chancellor of Hyderabad University
Sarvepalli Gopal, Biographer of Jawaharlal Nehru; also former chairman, National Book Trust
Satish Chandra, former chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi
Sudipta Kaviraj
Sudhir Kumar Sopory, Plant physiologist, Padma Shri awardee and vice chancellor
Tanika Sarkar
U. P. Arora, Greek history and Culture, IndoGreek studies.
V. S. Mani, Founding Director of the Gujarat National Law University
Utpal K. Banerjee, Writer and the Director General of the All India Management Association
Controversies
Mushaira disturbance Army Officers in 2000
In April 2000, two army officers who disturbed a peacefull mushaira at the JNU campuswere beaten up by agitated students.[27] The
officers were angered by antiwar poems recited by two Pakistani poets[27] and disrupted the mushaira.[28] They were enraged at the
recited lines of a poem Tum bhi hum jaise nikle ("You are like us too") and interpreted the lines as a criticism of India.[29] One of them
started to shout antiPakistan slogans.[28] When the audience asked for silence, one of them pulled a gun. They were overpowered by
security[29] and then beaten by students, though not seriously injured.[28][30] The army officers fled from the secen after one of the
officers fired in the air.[31]
See also
List of universities in India
Universities and colleges in India
Education in India
Education in Delhi
Distance Education Council
University Grants Commission (India)
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External links
Student Official website (http://www.odishastudents.com/)
JNU Official website (http://www.jnu.ac.in/)
JNU Official website for Entrances (http://admissions.jnu.ac.in/)