JNU: Protest over Vice-chancellor's Plan to ‘Privatise’ Assets to Address Funds Shortage
Basant Kumar Mohanty and Pheroze L. Vincent | 22 August 2024 | The Telegraph
The JNU vice-chancellor has floated plans to redevelop two of the university’s prime properties in public-private partnership mode and rent them out to address a funds shortage, drawing protests from students, teachers, a heritage enthusiast and an MP.
VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit told The Telegraph that JNU was struggling to meet its increasing expenses despite the education ministry raising its grants over the years…