more-inFormer Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) vice-president Shehla Rashid on Friday alleged that her dissertation was not accepted by JNU as she did not give her Aadhaar number on the submission form. “The JNU administration has sent back my dissertation to my centre because I haven’t mentioned my Aadhaar number,” said Ms. Rashid, adding that the university was pushing Aadhaar through the back-door despite there being no mandate for it. In the recent past, dissertations of others students who did not provide their UID numbers were also sent back. JNU Registrar Pramod Kumar said that Aadhaar was made mandatory in JNU after the UGC issued a notification on March 21.

Source: The Hindu August 11, 2017 20:03 UTC