 So the Executive Council meeting was presented with this agenda number three, which was about the total dissolution in effect of GS cash and replacement by the UGC regulation. Two or three deans were allowed to put their opinion, but in fact, when members, the elected representatives of the teachers tried to speak, they were actually sharply censured and the agenda was passed without any discussion. The last time there was a similar attack on the GS cash, not to the same extent, but last time when it happened it was in 2002-3. There was a sexual harassment case against a faculty member and that was the first time that a faculty member was actually punished. The administration set up a committee to re-look at the GS cash rules and procedures and tried to dilute to a large extent its independent nature. Thankfully it didn't go through. The most important thing is that the GS cash was not given by the administration or the government. This is the movement of women in this country and all those people are fighting on the issues of gender justice. After a long struggle, after the judgment of Milamisha, it was said that in every institution, whether it is private or government, there should be an institution that works against sexual violence. There should be a representation of every body of the institution, so that the power of any kind is not justified by sexual violence. There might be somebody close to the administration who is involved in a case of sexual harassment because why does this sudden need to change the very body which has upheld gender sensitization? One very significant issue is that in the Executive Council, there is a person called Biddu Chakravarti and he was implicated in a sexual harassment case in D.U. and he was found guilty. Actions were taken against him that you cannot hold any administrative position. That person is sitting in a body and deciding whether GS cash should exist or not. You cannot prevent or deter sexual harassment if the people who are in charge of enquiries are completely subject to pressure from senior levels. During our time also, there was a right-wing government and it's a similar government today but I think the nature of the government itself is very different. The entire attack ever since this person has taken over has been on the student, has been on the teacher, has been on the institution as such. Today we can see that the NGO given to JNU is the wife of a BJP leader. What is the position of the BJP on the gender issue? I don't need to tell you. Everybody knows very well. JNU is safe and secure for a large number of people in this campus, particularly because of this GS cash. Because there was a supportive mechanism in which the students and the teachers and staffs could go and file a complaint without having that fear that the information, the confidentiality will be leaked and the breach of trust was not there. But in ICC, since it is a nominated body, that sort of confidence is not there. I think it's a political attack from the government also that they want to sub-attach such kind of democratic bodies in this country that nobody could have thought that such a body could also exist in an institution where any woman can go and be free. Meaning she is not just a teacher, student, or any contractual worker of the campus can go and file a complaint because I spoke. GS cash said that because the confidentiality and so on is concerned, without taking the consent of the complainant we will not be able to hand over the file to ICC. So they have come with a battle in our security guard to seal the office. And after GS cash, GS cash also sealed their own documents and place. But GS cash office was double logged by the administration. It is also an institution which created atmosphere for gender sensitization and in fact opened up way many debates than you would find in a normal campus. People who are now going to run the ICC from what I am told have no experience in dealing with sexual harassment. So obviously they have no idea what they are doing plus if they just act on the behest of the vice chancellor or the administration in general then obviously there is no justice expected from them. For us the grief is you know there is an institution which we will fight for but that institution exists for justice and justice is now denied in JNU. As a political statement today when they are rejecting the existence of the GS cash body we are going ahead with our election. We are going to conduct our GS cash election. We want to give that message loud and clear that you might not recognize GS cash as a body but for us the gender sensitization committee against sexual harassment still exists and we will send our representatives.