 for more videos on people's struggles please subscribe to our youtube channel the hostel fees in jnu has been hiked by more than 3000 percent there was no water and electricity bill now water and electricity bill has been has been increased or included there was no maintenance fees now 1700 per month has to be paid apart from that 10 rupees room rent has been increased to 300 20 rupees room rent has been increased to 600 this is nothing but to destroy public education to ensure that the jnu as a public education institute shall not be there and to privatize it so what has happened is in last week a draft hostel manual has been arbitrarily passed without taking in confidence the student community of javalal neru university the draft hostel manual explicitly talks about fee hike which is 900 percent fee hike also talks about curfew timings closing down hostels by 11 o'clock talks about liberally closing by 11 o'clock and also puts mandatory dress code system also it completely finishes of reservation system which was there in the hostels so in protest students from last one week have been doing and strike at university level despite trying at all levels to talk to any officials till now there has been no response from the administration and the vice chancellor is continuously missing from the last one week the students have completely rejected the draft hostel manual and have made several dialogues have made some several applications to the dean of students to request this thing that the draft hostel manual should be immediately reworked and this is the demand one and only demand that the jnu students union and the jnu students community is having this is basically a privatization thing going on they're they're trying to privatize our jnu and jnu is known for inclusiveness people from different backgrounds are coming here to study and people are not from rich families but not from only rich families but people from all over the across the across the across India they're coming here so we have to make sure that this inclusivity is maintained but this fee hike will not will not will not do it then second we have this dress code thing there is a provision called there's a provision namely that when you're going to the mess you have to be appropriately dressed so we don't know what is the term appropriately signifying so we have to so this is this this shows the patriarchal thinking of the people who have made this manual basically and the third provision is the curfew timings in jnu we have proper freedom we can move anywhere the campus but now they have but now produce this curfew timing valap provision wherein they want us to be back to our rooms by 11 30 and also the library timings have been changed from 9 to 8 p.m 9 a.m to 8 p.m the library which was opened for the library which is 24 hours open now they want to lock it down from they're going to lock it down so these are the provisions which are very controversial and restricting we don't we reject this manual as students we will not hand our freedom to to anyone to the vice chancellor or to the dean of students this jnu is us not for the administration we will stand united to defeat this policy of excluding the poor from universities we want a affordable quality accessible education for the poor for the marginalized for everyone in this country education can't be for the rich and exclusive it should be for the poor and everyone and inclusive