JNU's scholarship forms to remain same: JNU Administration

JNU's scholarship forms to remain same: JNU Administration

Accused of linking the fellowship with the mess dues, JNU Administration on Monday said that the clause which says that pending mess charges will be deducted from the fellowship is not a new clause and no changes have been introduced in the fellowship forms. "A message has been spread on social media that a new fellowship/scholarship form has incorporated a change i.e. linking mess dues with fellowship/ scholarship and saying that the mess dues will be directly deducted from the fellowship/scholarship." "Actually, this provision has already been on the fellowship/scholarship form and there is no alteration of this condition...," the varsity Finance Officer said in a note.The administration came to its defense in the wake of the message posted on April 7 on social media in which JNU's Student Union President Geeta Kumari alleged the linking of the mess due with the fellowship a new addition in the forms."A wrong message is being spread. This is not a new rule. All the old forms had it. This undertaking has been there forever... May be they (students) didn't read it till today," JNU Finance Officer Heeraman Tiwari said.