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Supreme Court nod to JNU students' union polls
Thursday December 08, 2011 05:15:12 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Thursday permitted elections to the Jawaharlal Nehru
University Students' Union (JNUSU) for the current academic year
by relaxing the J.M. Lyngdoh committee's recommendations on age
and attendance.
An apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Ganguly, while
increasing the upper age limit to 30 years, waived requirement of
75 percent attendance as a requirement to contest elections to
JNUSU.
Based on the Lyngdoh committee recommendations in 2006, no student
beyond the age of 28 years and having less than 75 percent
attendance is eligible to contest elections to students' unions in
any university across the country.
JNU students had sought the relaxation of these two conditions on
the grounds of it being essentially a research university where
attendance is not mandatory.
In October 2008, the Supreme Court had stayed elections to JNUSU
as the university does not have any attendance criteria.
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