NEW DELHI: Unhappy with the recent decision to implement compulsory attendance for teachers , members of the JNU Teacher’s Association (JNUTA) will sit on a strike against the vice chancellor and will also come out with a referendum against him.

The JNUTA, after its general body meet (GBM) on July 24, declared that it has taken a serious note of the developments that have taken place in the university in the last semester and said the VC is pushing the university “towards a path of destruction”. The teachers declared that they will sit on a one-day strike on July 31 and will hold a referendum on August 7, on removal of the VC and rejecting the higher education funding authority loan, which the university has taken for its new engineering school.

“We are in principle opposed to a public university taking loans and the way the VC is taking loans is wrong,” said JNUTA secretary Sudhir Kumar Suthar.

