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Jamia Millia Islamia Forms 7-Member Panel to Address Protesting Students
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News18•19-10-2026, 17:15
Jamia Millia Islamia Forms 7-Member Panel to Address Protesting Students
- •Jamia Millia Islamia has formed a seven-member high-level committee to engage with protesting students and restore campus normalcy.
- •Students have been staging protests and a hunger strike demanding the restoration of the university's student union, dissolved in 2006.
- •The administration emphasized its commitment to resolving the impasse through constructive dialogue based on mutual trust and understanding.
- •The university highlighted that student union elections were previously banned due to violent clashes and disruptions, citing a 2022 Delhi High Court order.
- •The current administration, which assumed office in October 2024, appealed for peace and cooperation to safeguard the academic environment.
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Jamia Millia Islamia formed a seven-member committee to engage with protesting students, examine their grievances regarding the students' union, and work towards restoring normalcy and campus peace.
The university's students' union was dissolved in 2006 following recurrent incidents of violent clashes, attacks on teachers, and disruptions of classes.
Jamia highlights an existing system of subject association elections across departments and centres, where students elect a vice-president, general secretary, and joint secretary through secret ballots.
