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    Organised student movements in India date back to 1936 and have addressed a wide range of social, political, and economic issues. Some notable student movements include the 1974 Nav Nirman Andolan in Gujarat, where widespread protests led by students and others against corruption successfully pressured the chief minister to resign. In 1990, spontaneous protests erupted across India in opposition to the Mandal Commission's recommendation of 27% reservation quotas for other backward classes in government jobs and universities. Similarly in 2006, there were large-scale protests against expanding reservation policies to private higher education institutions. More recently in 2013, students in Tamil Nadu held protests calling on the Government of India to support a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed against Tamils in

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    Organised student movements in India date back to 1936 and have addressed a wide range of social, political, and economic issues. Some notable student movements include the 1974 Nav Nirman Andolan in Gujarat, where widespread protests led by students and others against corruption successfully pressured the chief minister to resign. In 1990, spontaneous protests erupted across India in opposition to the Mandal Commission's recommendation of 27% reservation quotas for other backward classes in government jobs and universities. Similarly in 2006, there were large-scale protests against expanding reservation policies to private higher education institutions. More recently in 2013, students in Tamil Nadu held protests calling on the Government of India to support a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed against Tamils in

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    Organised student movements in India date back to 1936 and have addressed a wide range of social, political, and economic issues. Some notable student movements include the 1974 Nav Nirman Andolan in Gujarat, where widespread protests led by students and others against corruption successfully pressured the chief minister to resign. In 1990, spontaneous protests erupted across India in opposition to the Mandal Commission's recommendation of 27% reservation quotas for other backward classes in government jobs and universities. Similarly in 2006, there were large-scale protests against expanding reservation policies to private higher education institutions. More recently in 2013, students in Tamil Nadu held protests calling on the Government of India to support a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed against Tamils in

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    STUDENT MOVEMENT IN INDIA

    Organised student movement in India is eighty years old as its origin dates back to 1936 when a permanent All
    India Student Federation was mooted to prepare the students for citizenship in order to take their due share in
    the struggle for complete national freedom. Since then, the students of India have been arousing their social,
    political and economic consciousness. They refused to work only within the realm of issues facing the students
    but went ahead and participated in steering the ship of the government. Student movements in India have always
    shown concern for wider sociopolitical issues.
    The recent spate of protests at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi and the formation of
    human chain to condemn the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar is just one such incident. If JNU
    demands dropping of arbitrary charges of sedition against Kumar, student in the past had raised several other
    demands that they felt were necessary to fix aberrations in society.
    1. Nav Nirman Andolan (Reconstruction Movement), 1974
    It is perhaps one of the few successful student agitations that led to the dissolution of a corrupt government. This
    sociopolitical movement in Gujarat was spearheaded by students and middle-class people who were angered by
    corruption in public life. The long-lasting movement started with the agitation by students of an engineering
    college in Ahmedabad on 20 December 1973 to protest 20% hike in hostel food fees.
    A similar strike on 3 January 1974 at Gujarat University witnessed clashes between police and students. The
    protesters demanded resignation of Chief Minister Chimanbhai Patel. On that note, a statewide strike was
    organised on 25 January that ended with another round of clash between police and protesters. Curfew was
    imposed in 44 towns and the army was called in to restore peace in Ahmedabad. The Indira Gandhi government
    gave in to the pressure of protests and asked Chimanbhai Patel to resign.
    2. Anti-Mandal Commission Protests, 1990
    When the VP Singh government announced its decision to implement the Mandal Commission report in 1990,
    spontaneous protests erupted. Anti-reservationists and students of higher castes organised agitation against the
    implementation of Mandal Commission report that recommended 27% reservation quota for Other Backward
    Classes (OBCs) in government jobs and public universities. The government was caught unaware as the
    students from St. Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics launched an agitation and took thousands
    under its fold. Soon, the protests spread into other parts of India sending a strong message to the authorities:
    Reservations based on economic considerations, and not on caste considerations, is welcome.
    3. Anti-reservation Protests, 2006
    It was a second major protest against the reservation system. In 2006, widespread protests took place in India to
    oppose the decision of Congress-led UPA government to implement reservations for OBCs in both central and
    private higher education institutes. Students and doctors belonging to upper castes disregarded this move as
    discriminatory. According to them, the reservation system discarded meritocracy and was driven by vote-bank
    politics.
    4. AntiSri Lanka Protests, 2013
    The war crimes committed by army against Tamils in Sri Lanka during the Civil War has been a sensitive issue
    for the Tamil community. Students in Tamil Nadu were seen holding a series of protests and agitations led by
    the Students Federation for Freedom of Tamil Eelam. The protesters had only one demand from the Government
    of India: vote in support of UN resolution for an independent international investigation against alleged war
    crimes in Sri Lanka. The agitations, which started on 11 March 2013, saw an ugly turn after Tamil Nadu police
    arrested students of Loyola College who were fasting in condemnation of alleged atrocities. A week later, large-
    scale agitations were held outside Raj Bhavan in Chennai which further led to the arrest of over 500 students.

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