New Delhi, January 8 (IANS): After Sunday's violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar met with the Secretary Amit Khare and Joint Secretary G.C. Hosur of Ministry of Human Resource Development, on Wednesday morning.
Kumar briefed MHRD officials on the steps taken to bring normalcy back in the JNU campus.
Informing about the meet, Kumar tweeted, "This morning met Shri Amit Khare and Shri G.C. Hosur at MHRD and briefed them on the steps being taken at JNU to bring normalcy." "All efforts are being made to facilitate winter semester registration for willing students and a conducive environment for their academic pursuits," he added in the tweet.
Earlier, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration, here on Tuesday, announced formation of a panel to look into the reasons that triggered the Sunday campus violence, leaving many students injured and causing outrage across the nation.
"The university is forming a small security committee to look into the incident," said JNU Vice-Chancellor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar while addressing the media.
No suggestion made to shut down: VC
Refuting claims that JNU administration has advised the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry to temporary shut down the university campus, Vice-Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar Mamidala, in an exclusive conversation to IANS, denies the news report.
A prominent news daily on its front page on Wednesday had claimed that the JNU administration advised HRD ministry to temporarily shut down the campus following Sunday's violence.
"The ministry however reportedly refused the administration's request," the report had added.
However, when IANS reached the Vice-Chancellor of the university, he denied the claims.
"We have not made any such suggestions," Mamidala said denying the news report.
Police has found 'vital leads': Govt
The Centre on Wednesday said that the Delhi Police has obtained "vital leads" in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) violence and efforts are going on to identify the masked people engaged in the act.
Officials, requesting anonymity, said that "no fresh cases were registered", apart from three already done regarding the JNU incident which occurred on Sunday where a masked mob carrying iron and wooden rods, left 30 persons, including students and teachers, injured.
"No arrests have been made so far. However, police has vital leads and lot of positive efforts going on for the identification of the masked people engaged in violence in JNU."
The government source shared the input a day after a fringe group by the name of Hindu Raksha Dal claimed responsibility for the violence.
Violence against education: Javadekar
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday condemned Sunday's violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), calling the incident an act against education and said there is no place for such incidents in the country especially in universities where students come for education.
Addressing a Union Cabinet briefing, the minister said that "all masked people involved in the JNU violence will be unmasked in police investigation".
"There is no place for violence anywhere in the country. The places specially like universities where students go to get an education cannot be a place for violence," Javadekar said.
Mentioning that winter semester registration began in JNU last week, the minister said as many students were taking part in the registration process in the university, some unions decided to stop it.
"It was widely published by you (media) how some people locked the server room and nobody was allowed to use it. This should not be forgotten. This is not the meaning of education. This is against the education." "Stopping students from registering themselves in education process is an uneducated attempt," Javadekar said.
As far as violence is concerned, the minister said: "It will be cleared in the police investigation and all the masked people involved in the violence will be unmasked." Responding to a query on Bollywood actors visiting JNU after the incident, the minister said this is a democratic country and any artist can go anywhere and put his or her view.
A group of masked miscreants, both male and female, thrashed students and teachers with wooden and metal rods on Sunday, leaving around 30 people injured.
The JNU has limped back to normalcy after the violence but a sense of fear still prevails in the campus.
