The university's peaceful environment in the manifesto

The image of this institution is deteriorating year by year, sometimes due to government intervention, sometimes professor protests, and sometimes student organization chaos.

Magh 27, 2082

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The university's peaceful environment in the manifesto

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The cooperation, dedication, and support of all parties involved play a leading role in the progress of any institution. The university is no exception. Only with the contribution of all parties including the government, university leadership, administration, professors, and students, can a university build a strong image in academic and educational activities.

 

The fate of Tribhuvan University is exactly the opposite. Sometimes government intervention, sometimes professors' agitation and sometimes student organization chaos have been degrading the image of this institution year after year. At present, the NCP's fraternal organization Akhil Krantikari has displayed unbridled and indecent behavior at Tribhuvan University. It has created panic. Which has once again disrupted the academic and administrative environment of the university.

In the current context, even though Akhil Krantikari is the fraternal organization of all the major parties within Tribhuvan University, the trend is almost the same. And, they are equally responsible for the decline in the dignity of this university. Therefore, a common commitment of all parties for reforms in the university is indispensable. This issue should be included in the manifesto being written by the parties.

First of all, students and their organizations can raise their demands and concerns individually and collectively. They should be allowed to do so. However, the creative capacity of our student organizations is very weak. Lockdowns, vandalism, threats and attacks, and slapping have become their hallmarks. After Akhil Krantikari protested for 34 days last Ashar, an agreement was reached. After the agreement was locked down, the university sought the help of the police administration. After the lockdown was lifted, the revolutionaries have displayed indecent behavior. On Friday morning, the revolutionaries' cadres pasted leaflets on the chairs of the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar using abusive language.

Dinesh Air, the president of the TU committee of the revolutionaries, had publicly warned the officials of physical attacks. On Monday alone, the nameplate outside the office of Rector Khadga KC was thrown away. Even though the lockdown was lifted, the officials have not been able to reach the university offices and work due to threats. They have been performing their daily work in different dean's offices and departments, including other bodies of TU.

The Nepali Students' Union, close to the Congress, had locked the offices of the Vice Chancellor, Rector and Registrar in the last months of June-July, demanding the reopening of the undergraduate admissions that ended in Magh 2081. In November 2078, the AnNFSU, close to the UML, had locked the offices of Vice Chancellor Dharmakant Baskota and other officials. If we look at the record of the past few years, student organizations close to the Congress, UML and the CPN (then Maoist) have repeatedly locked and vandalized. This trend has spread not only to the central administration and campuses, but also to the constituent campuses. This has caused serious damage in some aspects.

First, the country's oldest university, where about 80 percent of higher education, or about five hundred thousand students, study, has always been cursed to continue to operate under lock and key, obstruction and tension. Second, the university administration and professors have always been forced to live in fear. Sometimes due to attacks and sometimes warnings, they have not been able to engage in academic and educational activities with confidence. Third, when a highly educated and academic environment produces a refined workforce, the level of intellectual manpower and nourishment that students themselves, their families, society, and the country would have had is reduced. 

Firstly, students and their organizations can raise their demands and concerns individually and collectively. They should be allowed to do so. However, the creative capacity of our student organizations is seen to be extremely weak. Lockdowns, vandalism, threats and attacks, and scuffles have become their identity. Whereas, creative and effective movements are expected from students studying in universities. In this era of leaps and bounds in science, technology, and AI, students seem ready to walk with a stick in their hands. It is necessary for TU students and organizations to study what student organizations do in prestigious universities around the world, what the academic environment is like there, and how students' demands and issues are raised. It is necessary to emulate best practices. 

Student organizations are not the only ones responsible for the increase in chaos in universities, the questions asked to them and the suggestions given to them are not enough. This question is also linked to their parent party. What kind of university do political parties want? How is that possible? Parties should speak about this. Especially, they must have a clear view of Tribhuvan University, where millions of students study higher education. They can express their views on some aspects of it.

First, what is the structure of the university's operation? Second, what will be its academic and educational role? Third, the commitment to ensuring peaceful teaching and learning in the university. Parties should express a commitment to have zero tolerance for lockouts, vandalism, and beatings by their fraternal or close student organizations and to expel the involved students from the party organization and support administrative action. Civil society should raise questions about the parties that continue to protect fraternal organizations and make the university a center of chaos. They should be held accountable.

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