New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, which has been at centre of controversies in recent months on Monday organised an open day "Jan Jan JNU" for school children to work on the varsity's image and inform them about the university's contribution to various fields.
Around 800 students from 11 schools in the national capital where different departments had set up their respective stalls acting as information centre for prospective students and also detailed their achievements.
"Universities should not remain as ivory towers. They should connect with the society. The main objective of Jan-Jan JNU is precisely this," JNU Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said.
IIT Delhi Director V Ramagopal Rao emphasised on the need to inquisitive for students.
The students were also shown a movie about inception and development of JNU and were led through a range of exhibits followed by three parallel sessions on Mind Mapping and basic introduction to Indian sign languages, animation film on Panchantantra and a documentary from School of Languages.
The varsity has been hogging limelight for negative reasons including a journal calling the varsity den of anti-nationals and three of its students being arrested for sedition in connection with an event on campus during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
Recent disappearance of a student from campus following a scuffle with few alleged ABVP members has also brought adverse publicity to the university.
