"The shortfall in offers is not because of paucity of applications as there were enough applications available in each centre and school. Yet, shockingly, only 53 per cent of the seats specified have been offered," JNUTA President Ayesha Kidwai said in a statement. The teachers' body also claimed that there has been a complete failure to satisfy the Constitutional provisions for reservation in the research admissions this year. JNU witnessed a massive seat cut in M.Phil and PhD courses this year, following the implementation of the UGC May-2016 notification. The notification puts a cap on the number of students a professor can supervise and gives viva a 100 per cent weightage in the admission process.

Source: dna August 05, 2017 02:16 UTC