A not-so-subtle paradox of Jamia Millia Islamia 09 August 2018 13:55 ‘The day of June 02, 2018. I came all the way to New Delhi to sit in the entrance of MA Political Science, for the session of 2018, in one of the renowned institutions of India, Jamia Millia Islamia way back to my nostalgic years of graduation, I heard from my batch mates, seniors and professors about the impeccable academic achievements of JMI per se as far as the academics is concemed. So for this reason, I got some interest to apply for my post graduation by taking into the consideration of the outstanding faculties of the varsity. I studied witha fine toothcomb of my discipline whatever is suppose to be asked in the entrance as other universities do. Thisis the very established notion or the vox populi that every varsity, not only from India but all around the world, wall asks questions for the post graduation from the earlier graduation course of the particular discipline. I was cramming for my subject where I am planning to pursue my higher education in order to get more broader wisdom of the discipline. So when I sat for the entrance, we were handed over the entrance paper to all of us in the room and we looked after to each and every question with sheer food for thought When I tumed the page after passing over the first fifty questions, I saw the remaining questions from none other than Science, Current affairs, Geography, History overwhelmingly but not from Political Science as it suppose to be My conscience deprecated to even once look to attempt asit doesn't sit right with me, but although I have to bite the bullet as I cannot left those questions to be unattempted. When i was done with that I discussed the paper with my friends from JNU, HCU, AMU, Christ University in order to get the views ofit from them. They all objected the structure of the paper and disparaged it. | waited for the month just to first see the result and than to file an Right To Information(RT)) application onit. On 30th day of the month, the result was declared and asi was firm of not getting selection, it happened the same So I filed the RTI "to get the reason of tie concerned authority Jor asking questions from the diverse disciplines or subjects even that too for the post graduation levei* (Orme In the above mentioned RTI, I waited for the interval of one month as under RTI Act, 2005 we need tovwait for 30 days in order to dispose of the concemed query. With the forbearance of the provocation of administration, I was flabbergasted to see my RT! application nowhere to be found(picture 2) even when the concemed authority of RTI online, operated by Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India, provided me the Registration mumber and the Payment reference number(picture 1) of my RTI, to be seen over here RTI Online Doe EE aT Picture 2 Itis to be taken on the serious note that not only the JMI administration but the Central Information Commission which is working under the aegis of RTI act, 2005 couldn't do justice to provide the valid information to the applicant and even misplaced the RTI from the account. { was reading an article in dailyO about the disgruntled reaction of the loopholes in the entrance tests in particular and the dichotomy of the central university per se to be great in itself but totally failed to be good to called a "university" ‘With keeping in mind the above blunder, there is also an another paradox in the so called administration of the varsity. JMI's entrance portal provided the facility to let them know f there is any fault in the overall entrance mechanism. It is bogus in itself that although they have provided the mechanism but they forgot to let the students Imow where to address and how to address their grievances, as nothing opens if ‘we go through it(Picture 3).TAMIA MILLIA ISLAMI Complain Forms sme mec tera Picture 3, So, when i sawall this, i was adamant to explicitly enunciate the whole event, happened to mein particular and to many more. There are myriad of students with their own testimonies who want to naysay this established behavior of the administration as they all are hibernated to even take into their consideration. As this kind of laxity will nuin the career and smash the expectation ofa student to once study ina good university. The incumbent vice chancellor Prof Shahid Ashraf who is at the helm of the varsity, must acknowledge with strenuous efforts to iron out those kosher issue with gravitas as itis not- so-subtie in the public domain. Notes: + http://rti.gov.in/rti-act.pdf + https://www.dailyo.in/variety/jamia-millia-islamia-jamia-entrance-exam-shah-rukh-khan-jami: alumni exam-warriors/story/1/25953.html + https://jmi.ucanapply.com/Entrance/entrance/complain-forms?a id=UEIZMDAWMDAOMA==8 cant-id=UEIZMDAWMDAOMDAwMDAyODMxMM= ://mail. google. com/mail/u/0/#inbox/16455 635288c3d13 ://rtionline.gov.in/request/user Action Account. phy + https://rtionlin e.gov.in/request/listActionStatus.php?action=E£S VlebEAVyOKD|HdVVGO0K% 2FkISSZn evOV BflcXyNGU%43D%20% 20%420%20%20% 20%420'420&&code= LcF|VrLEDFcUMuvtm9ccs faP d6tUZteEZVpxFMILIMCO%3D, + https://rtionlin e.gov.in/request/listActionStatus.php?action=EE5 VlebEAVyOKDjHdVVGO0K% 2FLISSZn evOV ficXyNGU%43D&.8.code=sS 75 O8CGA%2BBI76TI 2BWhK7a5 DwXi3gz3nm8YGfDMUSO%3D.